Hermannia abrotanoides Schrad.

Subherbaceous perennial, a low, bushy, leafy plant with several to many slender stems from a woody base; stems and branches densely to sublaxly canescent with silvery strigose and appressedly stellate hairs, hairs fine and many from a central scale, minute glandular hairs often present. Stipules subulate and some upper ones linear-lanceolate, 3-10 mm long, sublaxly stellate-pubescent. Leaves basal and cauline, petiolate; blade 10-40 mm long, pinnately to palmately divided to midrib or almost so, pinnae divided again with ultimate lobes obtuse and decurrent, densely to sublaxly appressedly stellate-pubescent; petiole 5-40 cm long. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes, terminal on branchlets and in axils of upper leaves, forming lax, leafy racemose cymes; flowers few and large; peduncles 5-20 mm long; pedicels 3-7 mm long; bracteoles subulate to narrowly deltoid, 1.5-5 mm long. Calyx inflated, subglobose, densely stellate-pubescent with appressed stellate hairs some of which are very shortly stalked and readily caducous, leaving glabrescent patches, green to papery, sometimes suffused with pink or purple, about 10 mm long when flattened, 5-lobed to less than halfway; lobes acute. Petals “golden yellow”, “orange-red”, yellow suffused in part with purplish pink, twisted, usually only shortly exserted from inflated calyx, about 11 mm long, subglobose in upper half, narrowed below into a rather broad claw which is incurved at base and has broad, infolded margins, margins minutely ciliate. Stamens about 8 mm long; filaments hyaline, more or less obovate, up to 4 mm broad at the shoulders. Ovary more or less globose, densely tomentose with short, light brown, stellate hairs; stipe under 1 mm long; styles 6 mm long. Capsule short, 5 mm long, more or less globose, overtopped by the persistent perianth.