Hibbertia mediterranea is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to southern Queensland. It is a much-branched, spreading shrub that has glabrous foliage except on new growth, linear leaves, and yellow flowers with thirty to thirty-eight stamens arranged around three carpels.
Hibbertia mediterranea is a much-branched, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with glabrous foliage except on new growth. The leaves are linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of the branches and short side shoots and are sessile. There are leaf-like bracts long at the base of the flowers. The five sepals are joined at the base, with lobes long. The five petals are wedge-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, yellow, up to long with 30 to 38 stamens loosely arranged around three carpels, each carpel with four to six ovules.[1]
Hibbertia mediterranea was first formally described in 2013 by Hellmut R. Toelken in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected in Sundown National Park in 1996.[2] The specific epithet (mediterranea) means "remote from the sea" and refers to the species' inland distribution.
This hibbertia grows in forest understorey on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland.