Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 41:384 (1917).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small wiry shrub, glabrous except for a minute curly tomentum on the inner side of the leaf-base, to 50 cm high; leaves terete, sometimes clustered, 20-45 x c. 1 mm, 1-furrowed above by the incurved margins.

Flowers often 8-15 mm across, sessile or rarely shortly pedunculate; bracts at the base of the calyx c. 5, broadly ovate, small, scarious, ciliate; sepals obovate, ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, 5-7 mm long; petals yellow, obovate, sometimes notched, slightly exceeding the sepals or nearly twice as long; stamens 25-35, all round the carpels.

Carpels 3, glabrous, with 4-6 ovules in each; aril fringed, as long as the seed.

	Hibbertia crispula.
Image source: fig 200c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Endemic to S.Aust.: NU (near Ooldea), GT (near Lake Everard). S.Aust.: NU, GT. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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