- Pronunciation: hee-BERT-ee-ah ves-TEE-tar
- Common Name: Small-leaved Guinea Flower, Hairy Guinea Flower
- Derivation: Hibbrertia: George Hibbert (d. 1838) London merchant and patron of botany, maintained a private botanic garden at Chelsea. vestita: L. vestire - to clothe (with soft, fine hairs)
- Type: Shrub, Woody Plant, small Shrub
- Family: DILLENIACEAE
- Size: 30 cm
- Flowers: yellow, spring, summer
- Fruit: Dehiscent at apex
- Vegetation Type: Dry Eucalypt Forest,
- Species List: Emu Mt., NLTalks2010, Cooroibah Airstrip, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Fraser Island, Cranks Creek, Batianoff 87, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Noosa North Shore PS, TAFE, Girraween, Emu Swamp, NNP Coastal, Noosa River NP, BHNR, NNS,
Identification Notes
Flowers the size of a 10 cent piece
Landscaping Notes
Suitable Plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type).
Spreading rockery Plant for sunny well drained soils. Useful for protected seaside planting.
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.
Associated Fauna
Known food Plant of Ground Parrots.
