Excerpt from Refugium Botanicum, Vol. 3: Or Figures and Descriptions From Living Specimens, of Little Known or New
A very variable plant, especially in habit of growth and pubescence. The variety from which our figure and description are made was received under the name of Hibbertia Reedii. An erect copiously branched woody shrub under a foot high, the young twigs reddish, and copiously clothed with gray spreading pubescence, the old branches gray and denuded. Leaves crowded, quite sessile, linear, rigid, a quarter to half an inch long, with a bluntish point and persistently revolute edges rolled back to the thick midrib, gray-green and abundantly clothed with short spreading silvery hairs. Flowers abundant, terminal on short branchlets, sometimes nearly sessile. Sepals five, ovate-lanceolate, pale green, pubescent like the leaves on the outside, the inner ones with broadly membranous edges. Expanded flower half to five-eighths of an inch across, the petals pale yellow, broadly obovate, emarginate at the apex, when expanded spreading almost horizontally. Stamens 6 - 9, all placed on one side of the carpels, the short filaments united at the base. Carpels 4 - 6-ovulate, densely gray-silky, the filiform styles equalling the stamens. Capsules small, membranous, pubescent.
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