Hermannia hispidula Rchb.

Suffrutex with several ascending branches from a thick tap-root, branches hispid with long, pointed hairs, one to several from a prominent base, sometimes interspersed with short gland-tipped hairs. Stipules 2-6 mm long, oblique, broad-based and decurrent, abruptly narrowed into an acumen up to 4 mm long, basal portion 1-3 mm broad, sparsely hispid with bulbous-based or stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate; blade narrowly to broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronate, base broadly cuneate, dentate, upper surface and margin sparsely hispid with bulbous-based hairs, lower surface finely and densely stellate between the nerves, more coarsely so on nerves; petiole 2-8 mm long, hispid. Inflorescence terminal on branchlets, a lax racemose cyme, hispid as on branchlets and sometimes with gland-tipped hairs interspersed, bracts 3-5, like stipules but those at base of pedicels much reduced; peduncles 8-30 mm long; pedicels 2-6 mm long. Calyx about 5 mm long, more or less cup-shaped, 5 lobed almost to middle, sinuses wide, very sparsely hispid with one or more hairs from a bulbous base. Petals yellow, about 8 mm long, upper portion oblong-orbicular, narrowed just below middle into a claw with broadly infolded margins. Stamens about 5 mm long with oblong-cuneate haline filaments; stamens acute, ciliate, about 2.5 mm long. Ovary about 2.5 mm long, stellate-hairy, hairs long at apex, 5-umbonate, 5-angled; stipe 0.75 mm; styles 3.5 mm. Capsule about 6 mm long, glabrescent or very sparsely hispid with grouped hairs, 5-angled, 5-umbonate, calyx and stamens persistent and sometimes petals too.