Hibbertia australis is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with linear leaves and yellow flowers with four to nine stamens arranged in a single cluster.
Hibbertia australis is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, the young branchlets with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear, long and wide and sessile or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets or short side shoots on peduncles long. There are one or two linear to lance-shaped bracts long at the base of the peduncle. The sepals are long the petals are yellow, long. There are four to nine stamens in a single cluster on one side of the felty-hairy carpels. Flowering occurs between September and December.[1] [2]
Hibbertia australis was first formally described in 1955 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected at Marcus Hill in 1884.[3] The specific epithet (australis) means "southern".[4]
This hibbertia usually grows in heath or woodland and occurs in southern and western Victoria and as far west as the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.