Hermannia lavandulifolia L.

Suffrutex, weak, twiggy, 30-60 cm tall; branchlets tomentose with fringed scales and fine stellate pubescence. Stipules linear-subulate, early deciduous, 3-5 mm long, velvety tomentose on both surfaces (as on leaves). Leaves petiolate; blade oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, 6-23 mm long, 2-6 mm broad near apex, the majority entire, velvety tomentose on both surfaces, mucronate, rarely some leaves subtruncate or with one or more lobes at or near apex, broadly cuneate at base; petiole 2-3 mm long (extension of thick midrib obvious below). Inflorescence of 1-3-flowered cymes, leaf-opposed; peduncle scaly-pubescent, slender, long, 4-15 mm long, usually curved downwards; pedicels short, 1-2.5 mm long; bracts like leaves and stipules but smaller, 0.5-2.5 mm long. Calyx about 5 mm long, turbinate, lobed to just beyond middle, scaly-pubescent without, tube 5-angled, lobes with apices often infolded, Petals yellow, about 6.5 mm long, upper third suborbicular, narrowed at waist, claw with broad, membranous, incurved lobes on margin. Stamens about 4.5 mm long; filaments hyaline, apparently glabrous, oblong-obovate; anthers ciliate, overlapping filaments at base. Ovary finely stellate-tomentose, hairs longer at apex, 5-lobed, 1.5 mm long with a short stipe 0.5 mm long; styles cohering, capitate at the apex, sparsely pubescent, often exserted. Capsule more or less hidden by subpersistent perianth, about 4.5 mm long, 5-lobed, stellate-tomentose; styles long persistent.