Hermannia floribunda Harv.

Suffrutex, 60-120 cm tall, branched at base, branches long, erect or sprawling, subdensely stellate-pubescent, hairs fairly long from a minute bulbous base, often shortly stalked, older glabrescent parts rough with minute persistent stalks. Stipules from ovate to ovate-acuminate, ovate-lanceolate or subulate, 3-7 mm long, 1-4.5 mm broad near base, soon withering and falling on old wood, stellate-pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, ovate-cordate or ovate-oblong, occasionally broader than long, about 1-6 cm long, 1-7 cm wide near base, usually 5-nerved from base, nerves prominent beneath, stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, hairs fine and appressed, from a central scale, some shortly stalked and caducous, lower surface slightly lighter than upper, margins unevenly crenate; petiole 1-3 cm long, stellate-pubescent. Inflorescence of 1-to several-, mostly 3-flowered, cymes simple or crowded in axils of leaves and at apices of main branches and short lateral branchlets; flowers many, small, under 6 mm long on dried specimens; peduncles about 1-3 mm long, stellate-pubescent; pedicels 2-5 mm long; bracts more or less subulate or lanceolate, 1-3 mm long. Calyx broadly campanulate, becoming thin and subinflated, 5.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent with hairs fine and some spreading, lobed to about one third from top, lobes mucronate. Petals about 6.5 mm long, narrowly oblong-obovate, with infolded lobes just below middle and narrow infolded margins on claw. Stamens about 5 mm long, with narrow, more or less linear, hyaline filaments overlapped by anther bases. Ovary about 2.5 mm long, densely stellate-tomentose, 5-lobed; stipe under 1 mm long; styles about 3 mm long. Capsule about 6 mm long and broad, exserted from persistent, subinflated calyx, 5-lobed, lobes acute to mucronate, punctate and stellate-pubescent, hairs from a microscopic scale or base, becoming short and wearing off with age.