Hibbertia silvestris is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to more or less erect or spreading shrub with hairy young branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow flowers with seven to ten stamens on one side of two softly-hairy carpels.
Description Hibbertia silvestris is a prostrate to more or less erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of , its young branchlets covered with long, soft hairs and short star-shaped hairs. The leaves are hairy, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel long with narrow lance-shaped bracts long at the base. The five sepals are egg-shaped, long and hairy and the five petals are yellow, long and egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base. There are seven to ten stamens on one side of the two softly-hairy carpels, and five to twelve staminodes on the other side of the carpels, each carpel with two ovules. Flowering occurs from August to January.
Taxonomy Hibbertia silvestris was first formally described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. The specific epithet (silvestris) means "living in woods".
Distribution and habitat This hibbertia grows in moist forest in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
See also List of Hibbertia species
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