Hermannia eenii Baker

Perennial, prostrate with long slender runners, coarsely stellate-pubescent, often intermixed with bristle-like, ± patent setae from a bulbous base, 1-2 to several in a cluster, especially obvious in young growth, hairs straw-coloured to bright yellow. Stipules linear-to narrowly ovate-acuminate, about 3 mm long, sparsely setose, setae up to 1 mm long from a bulbous base. Leaves petiolate; blade linear-oblong, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, varying in size, sometimes on same plant (leaves on ultimate branchlets much smaller), 1-6.5 cm long, 0.4-2.5 cm broad, coarsely stellate-pubescent, from densely to sparsely so, more or less rounded at base, rounded, subtruncate or acute at apex, obscurely to distinctly crenate at least in upper half; petiole 2-20 mm long, coarsely, stellate or with tufts of setae (few hairs in a tuft). Inflorescence of 1-flowered cymes, axillary on long branches and crowded at apices of ultimate branchlets; peduncles slender, up to 3 cm long; pedicels short, up to 3 mm long; bracts 2-3 at apex of peduncle, linear-lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm long, 0.5-1 mm broad near base, setose or stellate. Calyx lobed almost to base, coarsely stellate outside and on upper portion of lobes within, tube about 2 mm long, lobes about 6 mm long. Petals usually pink, sometimes white or white with a dark patch near base, 3-6 mm long, shorter than calyx, oblong or oblong-obovate, obscurely clawed, about 4 mm long and 2 mm broad, margins slightly to clearly inrolled on both blade and claw, shallowly lobed at base of blade, inner surface of petals with minute appressed hairs about midway between marginal lobes, apex rounded to substruncate. Stamens with obovate, hyaline filaments which are setose on shoulders, 2 mm long, 2 mm broad at apex with a short apicule, joined to anther near its base; anthers erect, about 6 mm long, basal portion overlapping expanded portion of filament for 1 mm, thence narrowing to an acute apex, minutely hairy. Ovary stellate-pubescent with bristle-like hairs which are sometimes golden-yellow and often concentrated at apex, minutely papillose under stellate pubescence; styles very slender, erect, about 6 mm long, with short, spreading hairs in lower half. Capsule coarsely stellate-pubescent and with bristle-like hairs especially at apex, about 5.5 mm long, 5 mm diam., obscurely 5-lobed, lobes with blunt apices, not produced into horns. Seeds brown, reniform, corrugated.