Hermannia decipiens E.Mey. ex Harv.

Suffrutex up to 1.30 mm tall, branches pubescent with tufted or stellate hairs from a scaly base or on small raised tubercles, hairs long or sometimes short and dense. Stipules deciduous, lanceolate-acuminate to subulate, 4-6 mm long, up to 2 mm broad at base, stellate-pubescent, hairs long or short. Leaves sessile or subsessile, sometimes erect, imbricating, oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblong cuneate, 7-18 mm long, 4-7 mm broad, apex acute, rounded and mucronate or truncate and lobed, densely but roughly stellate on both surfaces, sometimes thickly tomentose, hairs long or short, mostly yellowish; petiole 0-1 mm long. Inflorescence a short, few-flowered, simple or branched cyme, terminal or in axils of upper leaves of branchlets; pedicels 2-5 mm long; bracts subulate, 2-7 mm long, seldom reaching more than basal third of calyx. Calyx not inflated, campanulate, densely and coarsely pubescent with stellate and tufted hairs, hairs golden yellow, tube 4-6 mm long, lobes about 2 mm long, deltoid, acute. Petals 7-8 mm long, oblong in upper half, narrowed abruptly into a claw with inrolled margins, dorsally conspicuously stellate from lower portion of upper half almost to base of claw. Stamens about 4 mm long with broad hyaline filaments about 3 mm long; anthers ciliate, about 2 mm long. Ovary 2 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, 5-lobed, stellate-pubescent; styles 4 mm long, hairy at base; stigmas capitate. Capsule enclosed by perianth, shortly exserted from calyx, about 5 mm long, subglobose, 5-lobed, stellate-pubescent; stipe short, up to 1 mm long.