Citation: Wakef., Victorian Nat. 72:118 (1955).

Synonymy: Hibbertia acicularis

Common name: None

Description:
Low almost glabrous branching procumbent shrub c. 30-50 cm high; leaves narrow-linear, tapering to a pungent deciduous mucro, with recurved margins such that only the broad midrib shows, scattered or clustered towards the ends of the branches, often spreading, 5-10 x up to 1 mm, glabrous or scabrous with minute scattered simple hairs above.

Flowers c. 8-10 mm across, sessile or subsessile; bracts at the base of the calyx several, lanceolate, ciliolate; sepals 5-6 mm long, glabrous; petals yellow, notched, longer or shorter than the sepals; stamens 4-8, on one side of the carpels.

Carpels 2, pubescent, usually with 4 ovules in each.

	Hibbertia exutiacies.
Image source: fig 200d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: The reflexed leaf margins and broad midrib resemble those of H. riparia. Because of variation in leaf apices these species are sometimes difficult to separate.

Author: Not yet available