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Hibbertia procumbens; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-09-13

Hibbertia procumbens (Labill.) DC.

Spreading Guinea Flower

Dilleniaceae · New South Wales, Tasmania +1

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
4.4°C
Record low 1.4 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
19°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,010mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
10–43DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Hibbertia procumbens, commonly known as spreading guinea flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a prostrate, often mat-forming shrub with more or less glabrous stems, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with eighteen to twenty-five stamens arranged in groups around usually four glabrous carpels.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hibbertia procumbens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Hibbertia

Hibbertia, commonly known as guinea flowers, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae. They are usually shrubs with simple leaves and flowers with five sepals and five petals that are usually yellow, but also sometimes orange, red, pink and white. There are about 400 species, most of which occur in Australia but a few species occur in New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and Madagascar.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hibbertia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (760 mm of 1,012 mm) takes 8 months, April to November. Mean temperature moves 7.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: October to May.

Rain

1,012 mm in the median year at the habitat, 760 mm of it April to November. Wettest month August at 117 mm, driest month February at 50 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 711 mm to 2,006 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,010 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,012 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 10 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 8, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 4.4 °C, the absolute minimum 1.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.6 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 5.9 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 0.8 °C to 9.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 19.3 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 4.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +66 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Hibbertia procumbens through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 19 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 5.9 °C; 1,012 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost32.6° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER1.4° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 10–43RH 60–64%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 405 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C19 / 16–2419 / 16–2418 / 15–2216 / 12–1914 / 9–1512 / 7–1311 / 6–1212 / 7–1313 / 9–1514 / 11–1716 / 13–2017 / 15–22
Night °C13 / 8–1513 / 8–1612 / 7–1510 / 5–139 / 3–127 / 2–106 / 1–96 / 1–97 / 2–108 / 3–1110 / 5–1311 / 6–14
Rain mm62 / 46–11550 / 34–9665 / 47–12080 / 56–15590 / 52–186105 / 63–206110 / 61–229117 / 66–24094 / 59–21388 / 59–18876 / 55–14075 / 58–138
DLI43 / 39–4537 / 34–4029 / 25–3119 / 16–2213 / 10–1510 / 8–1211 / 9–1416 / 13–1924 / 20–2733 / 28–3640 / 36–4343 / 39–46
RH %60 / 57–6360 / 58–6361 / 59–6562 / 59–6763 / 60–7064 / 60–7164 / 60–7163 / 59–7062 / 58–6861 / 58–6660 / 58–6460 / 57–64
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 405 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (1095 records in those cells; 5 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2569:6469 (-38.475, 143.475). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 1.4 °C, 1st-percentile night 4.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 405 distinct grid cells holding 1095 of the 1101 in-range records (5 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2569:6469 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -38.50_143.750, lapse-corrected +66 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 187 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-41.846, 146.301 · in the densest population, 656 records (58% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1140 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 1095 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1101 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 987 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 23 km away. 17 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 39 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 1140 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Lek Khauv, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Epacris lanuginosa Epacris lanuginosa Woolly-style heath Photo: CC0, author not statedMelaleuca squamea Melaleuca squamea Swamp honey myrtle Photo: CC0, author not statedAllocasuarina monilifera Allocasuarina monilifera Necklace she-oak Photo: CC0, author not stated Gaudium glaucescens Myrtaceae Leptospermum scoparium Leptospermum scoparium Broom Tea-tree Photo: CC BY, Diana StuderLinum monogynum Linum monogynum Linaceae Photo: CC BY, Joe Dillon

Other Hibbertia 18 in the reference

Hibbertia aspera Hibbertia aspera Dilleniaceae Photo: CC BY, Paul WhitingtonHibbertia crinita Hibbertia crinita Long-hair Guinea-flower Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyHibbertia cuneiformis Hibbertia cuneiformis Dilleniaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedHibbertia dentata Hibbertia dentata Trailing guinea-flower Photo: CC BY-SA, James K. DouchHibbertia diffusa Hibbertia diffusa Wedge Guinea Flower Photo: CC0, author not statedHibbertia empetrifolia Hibbertia empetrifolia Trailing guinea flower Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandHibbertia grossulariifolia Hibbertia grossulariifolia Dilleniaceae Photo: CC BY, Tyler AnthonyHibbertia obtusifolia Hibbertia obtusifolia Grey guinea flower Photo: CC BY-SA, Victor PhillipsHibbertia pedunculata Hibbertia pedunculata Stalked Guinea-flower Photo: CC BY, Thomas Mesaglio Hibbertia porcata Dilleniaceae Hibbertia racemosa Hibbertia racemosa Stalked Guinea Flower Photo: CC BY, KhandsHibbertia scandens Hibbertia scandens Climbing Guinea-flower Photo: CC BY, Sam Westbrook all 19 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Candollea enervia; Dillenia procumbens; Hibbertia angustifolia; Hibbertia procumbens var. pilosa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Dilleniaceae
Described by
(Labill.) DC.
Native to
New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria
Wild records
1140 in range · 987 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 211 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 210 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -38.50_143.750, lapse-corrected +66 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Hibbertia procumbens (Labill.) DC. (the item's: IPNI 317035-1, POWO 118901-3)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 24 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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