Hermannia bryoniifolia Burch.

Suffrutex, bushily branched, leafy parts ± uniformly covered with rather coarse stellate hairs from a scaly base, on lower parts from a tubercled base, rarely interspersed with obscure, gland-tipped hairs, rays many but short, mostly under 0.5 mm long. Stipules variable, even on same specimen, from narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate and then sometimes subcordate and semi-amplexiaul at base, sometimes also 3-lobed, from about 2 mm to 5 mm long and 1-4 mm broad. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, varying in size (even on same branchlet), from 5 x 3 mm near base to 30 x 20 mm, distinctly stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, unevenly crenate-dentate on margin (twice crenate or shallowly lobed and crenate); petiole 3-15 mm long, densely and coarsely stellate-(pubescent. Inflorescence axillary of 1-3-flowered usually 2-flowered) cymes on simple, dichotomous, ultimate branchlets, with most of leaves much reduced and so appearing to be racemose or paniculate cymes; peduncles varying greatly in length, 2.5-8 mm long, coarsely stellate-pubescent; pedicels similar but much shorter, 1-4 mm long; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2-4 at base of pedicels, stellate-pubescent. Calyx usually thin in texture, coarsely stellate-pubescent, 5-lobed to slightly above or slightly below middle. Petals yellow, more or less oblong with margins infolded in lower half, apparently glabrous but with a few minute hairs on infolded margins, narrowed at base into a short claw about 1 mm long. Stamens about 4 mm long, with hyaline oblong-obovate filaments, joined at base and with a few short hairs on shoulders which are overlapped by anther bases; anthers pointed, ciliate. Ovary ±2 mm diam., stellate-pubescent, shallowly 5-lobed, ± sessile; styles 2.5 mm long, sparsely and shortly hairy. Capsule about as long or slightly longer than calyx, i.e. 3-4.5 mm, coarsely stellate-pubescent, shallowly 5-lobed, lobes obscurely keeled. Seeds reniform with folds or wrinkles and minutely granular.