Hermannia angularis Jacq.

Suffrutex, 30-60 cm high, branching at base, branches spreading-ascending, reddish brown in parts, sub-branched, subdensely harshly stellate-pubescent, hairs short, 0.5-1 mm long, spreading or erect and then based on small tubercles, rarely glabrescent. Stipules narrowly ovate-lanceolate to linear-acute, with midrib usually obvious, 5-9 mm long, 1.5-3 mm broad near base. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, fascicled; blade obovate-cuneate, narrowly oblanceolate or linear-spathulate, 7-30 mm long, 3-12 mm broad, broadest at or near apex which is often truncate or rounded at 3-or more toothed, sometimes entire and acute, upper and lower surfaces laxly stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, margins sometimes ciliate with stellate or tufted hairs. Inflorescence terminal on ultimate branchlets, 1-or more 2-flowered cymes arising from a fascicle of leaves, stipules and bracts; peduncles 4-10 mm long, stellate-pubescent; pedicels 2-6 mm long, stellate-pubescent; bracts linear-acute, about 5 mm long, 1 mm broad, ciliate. Calyx parchment-like, 8 mm long, lobed to about midway, net-veined, glabrous except for stellate pubescence on margins of lobes, 5-angeld, angles extending from sinuses to base of calyx, the portion between being concave. Petals about 9-10 mm long, twisted, the shortly exserted portion orange-red shading to lemon-yellow; blade broadly oblong, 4-6.5 mm long, 5-6 mm broad, abruptly narrowed into a usually short claw, claw about 3 mm long with broadly infolded margins, minutely papillose within. Stamens about 5 mm long; filaments hyaline, oblong-obovate to obtrullate, apparently glabrous, overlapped by filament bases; anthers 2 mm long, ciliate. Ovary 2 mm long, stellate-pubescent, shortly stipitate stipe 0.5 mm long; styles cohering in a column, 3.5 mm long. Capsule subglobose, about 6 mm diam., usually enclosed by persistent perianth, stellate-pubescent, hairs short from a scaly base except on sutures where they are slightly longer.