Hibbertia ericifolia subsp. ericifolia

Shrubs with erect, rarely decumbent or prostrate, branches to 0.6 m long. Vestiture of stems of forward-directed to patent, simple, tubercle-based hairs. Petioles 0.2–0.5 mm long. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 1.5–6.5 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, shortly puberulous or with scattered tubercle-based hairs or simply tubercles on upper lamina, lower lamina puberulous with mixed short stellate and simple hairs, often obscured, but midrib prominent with scattered forward-directed simple hairs; apex acute, usually slightly decurved, glabrous or with a short tuft of a few hairs; margins narrow, revolute. Flowers on peduncle 1–5 mm long, terminal on long and short shoots, subtended by 1(–3) lanceolate to spathulate bracts c. 1 mm long; sepals 3.3–6.1 mm long, unequal, glabrous or almost so; petals obovate, 3.8–8.4 mm long, yellow; stamens 12–24; filaments mostly free; carpels 3, villous. Flowers Oct.–Feb.