Hibbertia praestans
Hibbertia praestans is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to northern parts of the Northern Territory. It is a small, broom-like shrub with red flowers arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils with four stamens and a single carpel. Description. "Hibbertia praestans" is a small, much-branched, broom-like shrub that typically grows to a height of and has pendulous, often flattened branchlets. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, with up to three narrowly club-shaped bracts long at the base. The five sepals are  joined at the base with two lobes long and three that are long. The five petals are elliptic, red, and long and each flower has four stamens and a single carpel. Flowering occurs from December to August. Taxonomy. This species of "Hibbertia" was first formally described in 1992 by Lyndley Craven and Clyde Robert Dunlop who gave it the name "Pachynema praestans" in "Australian Systematic Botany", from specimens Craven collected near Jabiru in 1973. In 2009, James W. Horn changed the name to "Hibbertia praestans". The specific epithet ("praestans") means "pre-eminent" or "superior". Distribution and habitat. This hibbertia grows  in sandstone crevices or in open forest on scree slopes in northern parts of the Northern Territory. Conservation status. "Hibbertia praestans" is classified as of "least concern" under the "Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976".