Hermannia micrantha Adamson

Suffrutex small, usually less than 30 cm tall, much branched; branches slender, divaricate, roughly stellate-pubescent with rays often over 0.5 mm long, and with short, gland-tipped hairs intermingled. Stipules usually in pairs, ovate, acute, cordate or rounded at base, oblique, one side deeply cordate, 2-3 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, coarsely stellate-pubescent, scaly and occasionally with gland-tipped hairs intermingled. Leaves petiolate; blade light green on both surfaces, not whitish beneath, obovate-oblong, narrowing slightly at base, about 6-10 mm long, 3-8 mm broad, rarely larger, stellate-pubescent and scaly on both surfaces, and sometimes with minute gland-tipped hairs intermingled, margins crenate; petiole 2-5 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes, terminal or laxly racemose on slender ultimate twigs; peduncles vary in length, often 1 cm long; pedicels 1-2.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent and with minute gland-tipped hairs; bracts like stipules ovate-cordate, those at base of ultimate cyme usually smaller and 3-lobed. Calyx about 3 mm long, 5-lobed to the centre or slightly beyond, stellate-pubescent without, and with minute gland-tipped hairs intermixed, teeth about 1.5 mm long, acute. Petals lemon-yellow, about 5 mm long, more or less oblong, rounded at apex, narrowing slightly to middle with lower portion with inrolled margins, hardly clawed at base. Stamens 3.5 mm long, with broad, obovate-oblong filaments with a few hairs on shoulders; anthers 1.5 mm long, cells acute at apex, ciliate on margins. Ovary and style about 3 mm long; ovary stellate-pubescent with long bristles at apex; styles with a few short, sparse hairs. Capsule about 4 mm long and 4 mm broad, deeply 5-lobed, lobes keeled and apices projecting above by about one third, stellate-pubescent, especially on keels, with some rays over 0.5 mm long.