Hibbertia montana is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, straggling or sprawling shrub with densely hairy foliage, narrow oblong leaves, and pedunculate yellow flowers with thirty to sixty stamens and a few staminodes arranged around velvety carpels.
Hibbertia montana is an erect, straggling or sprawling, densely hairy shrub that typically grows to a height of high. The leaves are narrow oblong, long and wide. The flowers are in diameter and are usually arranged on a peduncle, the five sepals densely silky-hairy. There are thirty to sixty stamens and a few staminodes arranged around the four or five velvety-hairy carpels. Flowering occurs from July to October.[1]
Hibbertia montana was first formally described in 1845 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in 1845 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near York in 1839.[2] [3] The specific epithet (montana) means "pertaining to mountains".[4]
This hibbertia grows near granite rocks and on hills on the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Hibbertia montana is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.