Hermannia diversistipula C.Presl

Suffrutex, branches erect to spreading, ascending or long and distichously arranged, clothed with fringed scales. Stipules leaf-like, sessile, linear-acute to elliptic, oblong-obovate or oblong-elliptic, 3-10 mm long, 0.75-3.5 mm broad, scaly-tomentose on both surfaces. Leaves subsessile or narrowed into a short petiole; blade 5-20 mm long, 2-10 mm broad at apex, cuneate at base, apex rounded or truncate, sometimes lobed, mucronate, usually conduplicate with small mucro slightly recurved, scaly-tomentose on both surfaces; petiole up to 3 or rarely 5 mm long. Inflorescence of short, usually 2-flowered, axillary cymes, flowers nodding and usually secund. Calyx lobed to about middle or almost to middle, scaly-tomentose outside, lobes deltoid or oblong, mucronate, apices often incurved. Petals twisted in upper portion, garnet-red or chrome-yellow, about 10 mm long, upper third broadly oblong, narrowing into a central waist, produced into a claw with infolded margins in lower third, minutely stellate-pubescent on margins in centre and on edges of claw. Stamens with hyaline oblong-elliptic filaments, about 3 mm long; anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long, cells acute, minutely ciliate, overlapping the filaments at base. Ovary 2-3 mm long, obscurely 5-angled and 5-umbonate at apex, scaly-pubescent and stellate-pubescent at apex; stipe almost 1 mm long; styles cohering, minutely pubescent. Capsule 5-7 mm long, 5-umbonate at apex, finely stellate-pubescent, more coarsely so at apex. Seeds reniform, 1.5 mm long.