Hibbertia pholidota

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Hibbertia pholidota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Dilleniales
Family:	Dilleniaceae
Genus:	Hibbertia
Species:	H. pholidota
Binomial name
*Hibbertia pholidota* S.T.Reynolds^[1]

Hibbertia pholidota is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Queensland. It is a spreading to scrambling shrub with scaly foliage, oblong leaves and yellow flowers with 30 to 36 stamens arranged around two densely scaly carpels.

Description

Hibbertia pholidota is a spreading to scrambling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in), and has scaly foliage. The leaves are oblong, mostly 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) long, 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) wide on a petiole 0.9–2.4 mm (0.035–0.094 in) long and densely scaly on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branches and short side shoots, with linear bracts 2.1–2.8 mm (0.083–0.110 in) long at the base. The five sepals are joined at the base, the outer sepal lobes 4.4–5.2 mm (0.17–0.20 in) long, 2.2–2.6 mm (0.087–0.102 in) wide and the inner sepal lobes longer and wider. The five petals are yellow, wedge-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5.3–7.6 mm (0.21–0.30 in) long and there are 30 to 36 stamens arranged in bundles around the two densely scaly carpels, each carpel with two ovules. Flowering has been observed in November and January.^[2]^[3]

Taxonomy

Hibbertia pholidota was first formally described in 1991 by Sally T. Reynolds in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected on Hinchinbrook Island in 1977.^[3]^[4] The specific epithet (pholidota) means "scaly".^[3]

Distribution and habitat

This hibbertia grows in sandy soil, often near rocks and usually along creeks on Hitchinbrook Island and along the nearby coast in northern Queensland.^[2]^[3]

Conservation status

Hibbertia pholidota is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992. ^[5]

References

^ "Hibbertia pholidota". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b 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: 107–108. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Reynolds, Sally T. (1991). "New species of Hibbertia Andrews (Dilleniaceae) from Australia". Austrobaileya. 3 (3): 538. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ "Hibbertia pholidota". APNI. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^ "Species profile—Hibbertia pholidota". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

Taxon identifiers
Hibbertia pholidota	Wikidata: Q17395285 APNI: 117862 GBIF: 5680697 IPNI: 960109-1 Open Tree of Life: 6040612 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:960109-1 Tropicos: 50191197 WFO: wfo-0000722107

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