Hibbertia depilipes
Hibbertia depilipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the far south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a sprawling shrub with scattered linear leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils usually with ten stamens all on one side of the two carpels. Description. "Hibbertia depilipes" is usually a sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of , sometimes forming adventitious roots from prostrate branches. The leaves are linear and scattered, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly in upper leaf axils  on pedicels long with narrow triangular bracts long. The five sepals are egg-shaped, long. The five petals are yellow, broadly egg-shaped long and there are ten stamens are all on one side of the two carpels with two or three staminodes either side of the stamens. The carpels are densely hairy and there are two ovules per carpel. Flowering has been recorded from mid-October to mid-December. Taxonomy. "Hibbertia depilipes" was first formally described in 2017 by Kevin Thiele in the journal "Nuytsia" from specimens he collected in Orchard Valley in 2013. The specific epithet ("depilipes") means  hairless foot referring to the glabrous petioles. Distribution and habitat. This species grows in open woodland and forest, usually in moist situations and occurs mostly west of the Albany Highway but inland from the coast in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions in the far south-west of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Hibbertia depilipes" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.