Hermannia confusa T.M.Salter

With age, up to 60 cm tall, branched from base; branches and branchlets rather slender with fairly sparse, appressed, stellate hairs and long, pointed hairs spreading from a minute, bulbous base, minute, gland-tipped hairs also sometimes present, the long hairs caducous. Stipules 2-6 mm long, ovate to narrowly ovate, often broad and oblique at base, the auricles somewhat thickened. Leaves 10-25 mm long, one or more at a node, pinnately lobed to bi-pinnately lobed above, narrowing into a petiole-like base up to 1 cm long, sparsely stellate-hairy. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes arranged in slender, leafless, lax, racemose cymes terminal on branchlets, cymes 1 to 2 at a node; peduncles 1-4.5 cm long, sparsely stellate-pubescent, glabrous or with minute, gland-tipped hairs, usually straight and suberect, usually shorter than internodes; pedicels short, 3-4 mm long, cernuous; bracts like stipules, narrowly ovate to ovate with a broad attachment, shallowly cordate or often oblique with one side deeply cordate, auricles somewhat thickened, acute or acuminate, glabrous or with a few long hairs which fall readily; bracteoles small and often united at base, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Calyx campanulate, lobed to almost middle, about 6 mm long, glabrous; lobes acute. Petals bright yellow turning red-orange with age, strongly twisted, about 10 mm long, the suborbicular upper half oblique at base where it narrows into a long claw with infolded margins, minutely pubescent in central area on inner face. Stamens about 6 mm long with obovate hyaline filaments, pubescent on shoulders which are overlapped by anther bases. Ovary about 3 mm long, 5-angled, stellate-hairy; stipe up to 1 mm long; styles about 8 mm long. Capsule 6-7 mm long, 5-lobed, shortly exserted from the persistent calyx, stellate-pubescent at least on sutures and at apex; styles fairly persistent.