Hibbertia cistiflora

Hibbertia cistiflora is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|30|cm}} and has wiry branches. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped, {{cvt|4–10|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.8–1.2|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.2–1|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets and are sessile and there are usually three or four triangular bracts {{cvt|1.0–1.3|mm}} long. The sepals are joined at the base, the outer lobes oblong, {{cvt|4.5–5.1|mm}} long, the inner lobes egg-shaped and {{cvt|4.2–4.5|mm}} long. The petals are yellow, broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|4.5–12.4|mm}} long with two lobes. There are usually four or six stamens in a single cluster on one side of the glabrous carpels.{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~cistiflora |title=Hibbertia cistiflora |accessdate=4 November 2011 |author=|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}{{cite journal |last1=Toelken |first1=Hellmut R. |last2=Miller |first2=Robert T. |title=Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 8. Seven new species, a new combination and four new subspecies from subgen. Hemistemma, mainly from the central coast of New South Wales |journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens |date=2012 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=86–89 |url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG25P071_Toelken.pdf |access-date=27 April 2021}}

This species was described in 1826 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in Systema Vegetabilium and given the name Pleurandra cistiflora from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber, but the name was illegitimate because it had already been used by Ludwig Reichenbach for a different species.{{cite web|title=Pleurandra cistiflora|url= http://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/502953 |publisher=APNI|access-date=27 April 2021}} In 1956, Norman Wakefield changed the name to Hibbertia cistiflora in The Victorian Naturalist.{{cite web|title=Hibbertia cistiflora|url= http://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/517533 |publisher=APNI|access-date=27 April 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Wakefiled |first1=Norman A. |title=Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 7 |journal=The Victorian Naturalist |date=1955 |volume=72 |issue=8 |page=119 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127025#page/120/mode/1up |access-date=27 April 2021}}

In 1995, Hellmut R. Toelken described two subspecies, cistiflora and rostrata{{cite journal |last1=Toelken |first1=Hellmut R. |title=Notes on Hibbertia I. New taxa from south-eastern Australia |journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens |date=1995 |volume=16 |pages=60–62 |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=APNI&tree.id=&name=Hibbertia+cistiflora&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&inc._other=&max=100&display=apni&search=true |access-date=27 April 2021}} and in 2012, a third - subsp. quadristaminea.{{cite journal |last1=Toelken |first1=Hellmut R. |title=Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 8. Seven new species, a new combination and four new subspecies from subgen. Hemistemma, mainly from the central coast of New South Wales |journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens |date=2012 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=86–89 |url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG25P071_Toelken.pdf |access-date=27 April 2021}} All three were published in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

• Hibbertia cistiflora N.A.Wakef. subsp. cistiflora{{cite web|title=Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. cistiflora|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/171161|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=27 April 2021}} has flowers with six stamens and leaves with scattered tubercles and a central vein not protruding and the tip of the leaf, flowering mainly from August to October;
• Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. quadristaminea Toelken{{cite web|title=Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. quadristaminea|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/236249|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=27 April 2021}} has flowers with four, sometimes five stamens, and leaves with few tubercles and a central vein that does not protrude at the tip of the leaf, flowering from August to October;
• Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. rostrata Toelken{{cite web|title=Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. rostrata|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/171162|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=27 April 2021}} has six stamens and a central vein that protrudes up to {{cvt|0.6|mm}} beyond the tip of the leaf, flowering mainly from September to November.

Subspecies cistiflora is widespread in the Sydney district and the Blue Mountains where it grows in heath, but has been recorded as far north as Werrikimbe National Park and from Braidwood to Nerriga in the south of New South Wales. Subspecies rostrata grows in heath on or near the tops of ridges in the Grampians of Victoria.{{cite web |last1=Toelken |first1=Hellmut R. |title=Hibbertia cistiflora subsp. rostrata |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/9c41948c-44d2-4a21-9320-e4ccccb4aab0 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=27 April 2021}} Subspecies quadristaminea is found in low heath on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales.

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cistiflora

Category:Flora of New South Wales

Category:Flora of Victoria (state)