Hibbertia cistoidea
Hibbertia cistoidea is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy foliage, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, and yellow flowers arranged on the ends of short side shoots, with six to twelve stamens arranged on one side of the carpels. Description. "Hibbertia cistoidea" is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with foliage covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, the tip wedge-shaped or  notched and the edges rolled under. The flowers are on the ends of short side shoots and are sessile or on a peduncle up to long. The five sepals are long and the petals are yellow and long. There are six to twelve stamens in a group on one side of the two hairy carpels. Flowering occurs from spring to autumn. Taxonomy. This species was first described in 1848 by William Jackson Hooker who gave it the name "Pleurandra cistoidea" in Thomas Mitchell's "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia". In 1946, Cyril Tenison White changed  the name to "Hibbertia cistoidea" in "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland". The specific epithet ("cistoidea") means "Cistus"-like. Distribution. This uncommon hibbertia occurs in Queensland and as far south as the South West Slopes in New South Wales.