Hermannia mucronulata Turcz.

Suffrutex, 30 cm-1.25 m high, branchlets shortly tomentose with fringed scales interspersed with groups of short hairs from a scaly base. Stipules leaf-like, subsessile or petiole up to 1 mm long, about 15 x 4 mm, velvety tomentose on both surfaces, mucronate, somewhat cuneate at base. Leaves petioled; blade obovate-oblong, 15-30 mm long, 6-15 mm broad in upper half, entire, velvety pubescent on both surfaces, mucronate, cuneate at base; petiole 2-4 mm long. Inflorescence of few-flowered cymes in the axils of upper leaves; peduncle about 6 mm long; bracts linear to subulate, 3-10 mm long; pedicels 3-7 mm long, shortly tomentose. Calyx inflated to subinflated, subglobose, about 9-10 mm long, lobed in upper third, subsparsely to densely stellate-pubescent, hairs short, many in a cluster on a scaly base, lobes 2-3 mm long, more or less deltoid with narrow sinuses. Petals yellow, shortly exserted from calyx, about 14 mm long with the apical portion recurved, narrowed in lower third to a short waist and produced into a claw with infolded margins, shortly hairy in waist. Stamens about 8 mm long with broadly obovate hyaline filaments; anthers about 4 mm long, overlapping filaments at base. Ovary about 3 mm long, densely and shortly tomentose; stipe 1 mm long; stigmas 6 mm long. Capsule enclosed in persistent perianth.