Hibbertia striata
Hibbertia striata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear leaves and yellow flowers usually with thirty stamens arranged in five bundles around five glabrous carpels. Description. "Hibbertia striata" is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets sometimes covered with pale grey hairs. The leaves are linear, mostly long and wide with the edges rolled under, obscuring the lower surface apart from the midrib. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of the branches  and short side shoots and are sessile with narrowly egg-shaped bracts long at the base. The five sepals are egg-shaped, mostly long and covered with white hairs. The five petals are yellow, long and egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and there are about thirty stamens arranged around five glabrous carpels, each carpel with a single ovule. Flowering mainly occurs from July to November. Taxonomy. This species was first formally described in 1845 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel who gave it the name "Candollea striata" in Lehmann's "Plantae Preissianae". In 2017, Kevin Thiele changed  the name to "Hibbertia striata" in the journal "Nuytsia". The specific epithet ("striata") refers to the leaves. Distribution and habitat. "Hibbertia striata" grows in woodland and forest and is widespread, mostly in the area between Morawa, Mingenew, Wongan Hills, York and Brookton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status. "Hibbertia striata" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.