Hibbertia solanifolia

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Hibbertia solanifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Dilleniales
Family: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Hibbertia
Species:
H. solanifolia
Binomial name
Hibbertia solanifolia

Hibbertia solanifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory in Australia. It is a spreading to low-lying shrub with ridged branches, elliptic leaves and yellow flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils, with 34 to 38 stamens arranged in groups around three densely scaly carpels.

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Description

Hibbertia solanifolia is a spreading to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has strongly ribbed branches that are more or less triangular in cross-section. The foliage is covered with rosette-like hairs. The leaves are elliptic, mostly 25–45 mm (0.98–1.77 in) long and 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) wide on a petiole 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, each flower on a thread-like peduncle 15–22 mm (0.59–0.87 in) long, with linear bracts 1.6–1.8 mm (0.063–0.071 in) long at the base. The five sepals are joined at the base, the outer sepal lobes 4.1–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) long and 3.5–3.9 mm (0.14–0.15 in) wide, and the inner lobes slightly shorter. The five petals are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, yellow, 6.3–8.8 mm (0.25–0.35 in) long and there are 34 to 38 stamens arranged in groups around the three densely scaly carpels, each carpel with two ovules. [2] [3]

Taxonomy

Hibbertia solanifolia was first formally described in 2010 by Hellmut R. Toelken in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected by Clyde Robert Dunlop near Nourlangie Creek in 1973. [2] [4] The specific epithet (solanifolia) means "Solanum-leaved", referring to the similarity of the leaves to those of some Australian species of Solanum . [2]

Distribution and habitat

This hibbertia grows in sandy soils near watercourses and on sandstone near the Alligator and Goomadeer Rivers areas in the Top End of the Northern Territory. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Hibbertia solanifolia is classified as "near threatened" under the Northern Territory Government Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 .

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References

  1. ↑ "Hibbertia solanifolia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Toelken, Hellmut R. (2010). "Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 5. H. melhanioides and H. tomentosa groups from tropical Australia" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 23: 60–61. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Hibbertia solanifolia". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Hibbertia solanifolia". APNI. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
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