Hermannia minutiflora Engl.

Suffrutex, erect, bushy, 20-60 cm tall, much branched, in all parts canescent with two layers of stellate hairs, rays many from a central scale, spreading or in upper layer tufted on scales which often become detached, very minute black-headed glandular hairs often scattered in the tomentum, branches and branchlets somewhat zigzag. Stipules varying in size, 1.5-4 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm broad. Leaves petiolate; blade suborbicular or broadly ovate-oblong, 4-19 mm long, 4-20 mm broad, truncate or broadly cuneate at base, sometimes some of upper leaves cuneate in lower third, obscurely 3-5-lobate, margin crenate, plicate or corrugated at least towards margin; petiole 2-10 mm long. Inflorescence of 1 or more 1-3-flowered cymes in axils of upper leaves and terminal on ultimate branchlets often forming leafy, cymose racemes, flowers on herbarium specimens under 5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles about 1.5 mm long, subulate, rather thick. Calyx broadly campanulate, on herbarium specimens up to 2.5 mm long, lobed almost to the middle. Petals yellow or orange, about 5 mm long, oblong-obovate in upper half, narrowed into a waist and produced below into a portion with infolded margins narrowing into a claw below, stellate-pubescent dorsally about middle. Stamens 3.5 mm long, with broadly obovate, hyaline filaments about 2 mm long, 2.5 mm broad in upper portion, with minute hairs on shoulders; anthers almost 2 mm long, ciliate, overlapping filaments at base. Ovary stellate-tomentose, shallowly 5-lobed; stipe 0.5 mm long; styles 2.5 mm long. Capsule enveloped by persistent calyx and corolla, 5-angled, at first densely stellate-pubescent then glabrescent and membranous.