Hibbertia hermanniifolia subsp. recondita

Shrubs with spreading tomentose branches to c. 3 m long. Vestiture of mainly tubercle-based stellate hairs under larger stalked stellate hairs. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate-cuneate to spathulate, 4.3–15.4 mm long, 2.8–7.6 mm wide, tomentose to puberulous, discolorous, with fewer 2–4-branched stellate hairs and/or simple hairs above; apex truncate to rounded, rarely slightly emarginate; ± folded along the midvein above; margins narrow, recurved. Flowers with peduncle to 8.2 mm long, terminal, with one leaf-like bract 1–1.5 mm long below calyx; sepals 3.5–6.8 mm long, unequal, tomentose; petals obovate to oblanceolate, 4.8–7.1 mm long, usually bright yellow; stamens 8–16 and a few staminodes surrounding ovary; filaments free; carpels 2, tomentose to almost villous. Flowers Nov.–Mar.