Hermannia linifolia Burm.F.

Suffrutex, stems several from the taproot, slender, decumbent, with ascending, secund branches, stem and branches terminating in an inflorescence, bright green, striate in dried specimens, glabrous or very sparsely stellate-hairy with rays few, long and pointed; internodes 8-40 mm long, sometimes longer. Stipules leaf-like, about half as long as leaves, 4-12 mm long, linear, usually broad at base, often sparsely ciliate like the leaves, with distinct, pointed hairs. Leaves subsessile, appearing linear but, tapering into a petiolelike base, often acicular, 13-30 mm long, apex acute or broad and lobed, margins often sparsely ciliate with long, pointed, bulbous-based hairs. Inflorescence of 1-flowered cymes arranged in terminal racemose cymes. Calyx about 6 mm long, lobed to about midway, sparsely stellate-hairy especially on margins and veins, rays long and pointed, few or solitary from a bulbous base, glabrescent; lobes deltoid with acute to acuminate apex. Petals yellow or “orange-yellow”, glabrous, about 9 mm long, upper third or half oblong-orbicular, narrowed below into a claw with infolded margins. Stamens about 6 mm long; filaments hyaline, oblong, somewhat cuneate, with hairs on shoulders, united around short stipe; anthers about 3.5 mm long, overlapping the filment for 1 mm, ciliate, cells acute. Ovary 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, narrowing towards base, stellate-hairy in upper half, especially along sutures; stipe 1 mm long; styles 5 mm long, cohering, hairy in basal third. Capsule more or less globose, bluntly 3-umbonate at apex and with a 1.5 mm long stipe.