Hermannia odorata Aiton

Suffrutex up to 150 cm tall with suberect branchlets, new growth densely clothed with fringed scales, ribbed in parts. Stipules subulate, 3-8 mm long, up to 1 mm broad at base, usually less, velvety tomentose on both surfaces. Leaves cuneate into a very short petiole; blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong-cuneate, 10-26 mm long, 2.5-7 mm broad near apex, velvety tomentose on both surfaces, usually folded along midrib which is thick and prominent beneath, acute and slightly recurved at apex, margin entire, occasionally with an odd tooth near apex; petiole up to 2 mm long. Inflorescence terminal on ultimate branchlets or in axils of, or opposite, upper leaves, in few-flowered pseudoracemose cymes, flowers more or less secund; peduncle short and stiff; bracts subulate, 1-2.5 mm long, usually occurring in threes (the reduced leaf and 2 stipules), reduced leaves only twice as long as stipules and stipule-like). Calyx about 7 mm long, lobed to above middle (sinuses V-shaped), densely yellow-tomentose without, hairs fringing pit-like scales. Petals twisted, yellow, about 9 mm long, upper portion oblong, about 5 mm long, abruptly narrowed into a short, densely ciliate waist (stellate-pubescent dorsally) and then into a claw with infolded margins. Stamens with oblong, hyaline filaments about 3 mm long, anthers pointed, ciliate, about 2.5 mm long, overlapping filaments at base. Ovary about 2.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, tomentose, hairs longer at apex, obscurely 5-lobed and 5-umbonate at apex; styles adhering, with a few short hairs in lower half, about 3.5 mm long; stipe under 1 mm long. Capsule about 5 mm long, cupped at base by persistent calyx, stellate-tomentose, 5-angled, 5-umbonate.