Hibbertia empetrifolia

Spreading to prostrate shrubs; branches pubescent to puberulous, to c. 40 cm long. Vestiture of tubercle-based, mainly simple hairs (sometimes hooked) over scattered stellate hairs. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, 4–14 mm long, 0.7–6.1 mm wide, sparsely pubescent; petiole 0.2–0.9 mm long; apex obtuse to rounded, rarely mucronate with central vein scarcely protruding; margins narrow, revolute, distant from scarcely raised central vein. Flowers on peduncle 2–6(–10.4) mm long, terminal, but often apparently axillary when on reduced short shoots or on main branches with continued axillary growth, subtended by 1 subulate bract 1.2–2.5 mm long, half as long to subequal to sepals; sepals 2.5–4.6 mm long, unequal, pubescent; petals oblanceolate- to obovate-cuneate, 3.1–6 mm long, mid yellow; stamens (4–)5–7(–9); filaments connate basally; carpels 2, tomentose to villous with stellate or forked hairs. Flowers Aug.–Feb.