Hibbertia scandens

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hibbertia scandens, photographed by Gary Williams — fig. b Gary Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197367171

Hibbertia scandens, photographed by Corne Brink — fig. c Corne Brink, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 193504430

Hibbertia scandens, photographed by ronavery — fig. d ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190443944

Hibbertia scandens, photographed by Elijah Magistrado — fig. g Elijah Magistrado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188035419

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Hibbertia scandens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Queensland	QLD
New Guinea	NWG	ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 460 in flower of 551 examined

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77%

Proportion of examined Hibbertia scandens in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	24	37	65%	49% to 78%
Feb	21	25	84%	65% to 94%
Mar	43	52	83%	70% to 91%
Apr	43	55	78%	66% to 87%
May	27	31	87%	71% to 95%
Jun	28	39	72%	56% to 83%
Jul	19	26	73%	54% to 86%
Aug	23	29	79%	62% to 90%
Sep	28	32	88%	72% to 95%
Oct	93	96	97%	91% to 99%
Nov	67	72	93%	85% to 97%
Dec	44	57	77%	65% to 86%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Hibbertia scandens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 460 of 551 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,996 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.4 °C	11.2 °C	15.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	23.1 °C	25.5 °C	28.3 °C
Annual rainfall	928 mm	1,305 mm	1,737 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	121 mm	201 mm	241 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,996 research-grade observations of Hibbertia scandens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Dillenia humilis Donn
Dillenia integra Moench
Dillenia scandens Willd.
Dillenia terneriflora Ker Gawl.
Dillenia volubilis (Andrews) Vent.
Hibbertia novoguineensis Gibbs
Hibbertia scandens var. denticulata F.Muell.
Hibbertia scandens var. glabra (Maiden) C.T.White
Hibbertia scandens var. normalis Domin
Hibbertia scandens var. oxyphylla Domin
Hibbertia volubilis Andrews
Hibbertia volubilis var. glabra Maiden

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.