Hermannia johansseni N.E.Br.

Suffrutex, low, usually under 30 cm tall, when protected somewhat taller, sometimes, probably through heavy browsing, more or less prostrate with rather thick woody branches; young branches leafy to apex, completely stellate-tomentose hairs short and fine from a minute central scale, minute glandular hairs sometimes present, some stellate hairs very shortly stalked and readily falling, older branches thinly pubescent and dark coloured in contrast. Stipules narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2-8 mm long, 1.5-4 mm broad near base, upper usually longer than those near base of plant, minutely stellate-pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade suborbicular to broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, broadly cuneate or more rarely cuneate at base, shallowly and unevenly crenate on margins, 7-19 mm long, 5-11 mm broad, subdensely stellate-pubescent to tomentose with short fine hairs from a minute central scale, minute gland-tipped hairs sometimes present; petiole 2-7 mm long, sometimes basal leaves with petioles up to 19 mm long. Inflorescence of short, 1-2-, rarely 3-flowered cymes in axils of leaves which usually continue to apices of branches forming long, leafy, terminal, racemose cymes with secund flowers; peduncles 0-7 mm long, stellate-pubescent; bracteoles 1-2 mm long; pedicels 1.5-4 mm long, stellate-pubescent, hairs slightly longer than on branches. Calyx ovoid-globose to globose, narrowed at mouth, inflated, pale, about 7 mm long, shortly toothed, teeth deltoid, up to 2 mm long, sub densely stellate-pubescent with hairs short and fine from a minute central scale, some stellate hairs shortly stalked, rays relatively long, readily falling. Petals twisted, yellow or “golden yellow”, only shortly exserted from inflated calyx, about 9 mm long, more or less narrowly oblong in upper third, narrowing slightly into a waist and produced below into a claw with infolded margins, minutely stellate dorsally. Stamens about 5 mm long with narrow hyaline filaments; anthers overlapping filaments at base, ciliate. Ovary depressed globose, 5-lobed, about 4 mm long, 5 mm diameter, densely stellate-pubescent; stipe up to 1 mm long; styles 4 mm long. Capsule enclosed in persistent calyx.