Hermannia decumbens Willd. ex Spreng.

Suffrutex, decumbent; branches up to about 30 cm long, trailing, with inflorescence ascending, with small, scattered, stellate scales, hairs in parts long and matted, sometimes scales stalked. Stipules narrowly lanceolate-elliptic to broadly ovate, narrowed or subcordate at base, acuminate and acute to subacute at apex, stellate-pubescent with short or long, matted, often grey hairs, glabrescent at least on surfaces, several-veined from base. Leaves petiolate, variable, blade from narrowly lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-oblong or very broadly ovate-oblong, 9-50 mm long, 5-25 mm broad, evenly or unevenly crenate on margin, sometimes entire, stellate-pubescent with short, or long and matted hairs, often glabrescent at least on surfaces; petiole 4-15 mm long, stellate-pubescent with hairs short or long and matted, sometimes glabrescent in parts. Inflorescence terminal in pseudocymose racemes or panicles on ultimate branchlets, flowers clustered in a few, short cymes at intervals along the ascending branchlets, especially towards the ends; bracts variable, mostly stipule-like, from narrowly oblong-elliptic to broadly ovate with subcordate base, up to 9 x 6 mm long, sometimes the broad bracts 1-2-lobed at apex, usually glabrescent on surfaces; bracteoles usually 3, smaller than bracts, linear to lanceolate-elliptic, often about 3.5 x 1 mm, rarely up to 10 x 3 mm and the linear ones 8x 1 mm; peduncles usually short, about 5 mm long, rarely longer; pedicels 1.5-5 mm long. Calyx campanulate, subinflated, 6-8 mm long, lobed to almost halfway, the stellate or grouped hairs usually long and matted. Petals strongly twisted, yellow to orange, oblong-orbicular in upper half, abruptly narrowed into a claw with broad infolded margins, stellate-pubescent on edges of claw and on inrolled margins. Stamens about 6-8 mm long; filaments hyaline, obovate-oblong, minutely stellate-pubescent on shoulders. Ovary about 3.5 mm long, 5-angled or winged, stellate-pubescent especially on the angles; stipe 0.5 mm long. Capsule enclosed in persistent calyx and petals, 5-angled, stellate-pubescent.