Hermannia involucrata Cav.

Suffrutex 60 cm to 1.3 m high, erect or straggling, branchlets with shiny, tufted hairs from a sessile, scaly base or a slightly raised tubercle, hairs long or short and give the new growth, leaves and calyx a golden hue. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, subulate or linear-acute, 2.5-10 mm long, base 0.51.5 mm broad, roughly and sublaxly to densely stellate, incurved in upper portion. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade strikingly variable in shape from broadly elliptic to elliptic or oblong-obovate, 10-37 mm long, 6-14 mm broad, acute and mucronate to broadly rounded and mucronate or broadest and toothed at subtruncate apex, roughly and subdensely or densely stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, hairs stiff and golden yellow, scattered among groups of hairs are minute, dark pustules; petiole 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence of short, few-flowered, branched cymes in axils of upper leaves, up to 2.5 cm long; peduncles short, up to 5 mm long, roughly stellate; bracts at base of pedicels subulate, up to 10 mm long, often reaching to top of calyx, roughly stellate, arcuate in upper portion; pedicels 1-2 mm long, roughly stellate. Calyx subcoriaceous with strong ribs, densely pubescent with stellate or tufted hairs from a scaly base, hairs shiny and giving calyx a golden hue, about 8 mm long, lobed in upper third or almost to middle, tube cup-shaped, lobes cuspidate from a deltoid base. Petals yellow, about 10 mm long, oblong in upper half, narrowed into a claw with inrolled margins, apex rounded to subtruncate, recurved, dorsally finely stellate-pubescent in lower two-thirds. Stamens about 4-6 mm long with hyaline, obovate-oblong filaments; anthers about 2.5 mm long, ciliate. Ovary 5-angled, stellate at least on sutures; stipe 0.5-1 mm long; styles about 4 mm long. Capsule about 7 mm long, half exserted from persistent calyx, finely stellate-pubescent between sutures which are coarsely stellate-pubescent.