Acrotriche patula, commonly known as shiny ground-berry[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of continental Australia.

Acrotriche patula is a rigid, divaricately branched, prickly shrub that typically grows to up 60 cm (24 in) high and wide, its young branchlets reddish-brown.

[2][3][4] Acrotriche patula was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae.

[5][6] The specific epithet (patula) means "wide open" or "spreading", referring to its branching habit.

[7] Shiny ground-berry grows on coastal limestone in mallee scrub along the coast of southern Western Australia in the Hampton and Mallee bioregions, but mostly in South Australia, including in the Nullarbor, Eyre Yorke Block and Kangaroo Island bioregions.