Hermannia multiflora Jacq.

Suffrutex, about 30-75 cm tall, bushy, much branched, outer branches spreading-ascending; branchlets lepidote-stellate, the new growth densely so. Stipules with lower lanceolate-subulate, about 2 mm long, the upper ovate-acuminate, about 3 mm long, 1 mm broad at base. Leaves petiolate, sometimes appearing fascicled when crowded on abbreviated lateral shoots; blade discolorous, usually oblong-cuneate, sometimes suborbicular-cuneate, variable in size, from about 3 mm long and 1.5 mm broad near apex, to 20 mm long and 11 mm broad, rounded at apex, crenate-dentate in upper portion, dark and finely lepidote-stellate on upper surface, pale lepidote-stellate-tomentose beneath, midrib and subflabellate nerves impressed above and prominent beneath; petiole 1.5-5 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-2-flowered cymes arranged in fairly lax, terminal, racemose cymes, one to two at each node of raceme; peduncles straight, erect or suberect, varying in length, lower short, the terminal long, from about 5-20 mm long; pedicels usually shorter and slightly cernuous; bracts and bracteoles variable, ovate to lanceolate-acuminate, up to 5 at a node, often with an elliptic, entire, petioled bract up to 9 mm long and 1 mm broad among them. Flowers yellow to orange-yellow, sweetly scented, about 8 mm long (rarely 5 mm long). Calyx broadly campanulate to subpatelliform, about 5 mm long, lobed to about midway, fawn to brown-tomentose, the lepidote-stellate pubescence dense, the scales reddish brown and hairs straw-coloured resulting in a mousey colour. Petals 5-10 mm long, suborbicular to oblong-orbicular in upper half, narrowing into a short waist and produced below into a claw with inrolled margins, waist and claw densely to sparsely but obviously stellate-pubescent on margins. Stamens with filaments cohering at base of stipe; filaments hyaline, obovate-cuneate, pubescent on shoulders; anthers ciliate, slightly shorter than filaments which they shortly overlap at base. Ovary densely lepidote-stellate, the hairs long and erect at apex, shallowly 5-lobed, shortly stipitate; styles cohering, erect, about 2.5 mm long. Capsule densely lepidote-stellate, about 4 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, withering calyx and stamens persisting at base.