Hermannia paucifolia Turcz.

Suffrutex, stems several to many, bushy, from a woody base, branched at base and sparingly above, branches glabrous or with a few hairs or minute glandular hairs, rarely finely stellate-pubescent. Stipules small, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-3.5 mm long, glabrous or sublaxly pubescent, some hairs on margins long. Leaves mostly basal with a few distant and somewhat reduced leaves above, petiolate; blade 15-30 mm long, usually palmatisect with segments pinnately and unevenly once or twice lobed, lobes mostly rounded at apex, leaves rarely ovate and palmately nerved with margins shallowly to deeply lobed, upper and lower surface glabrous or sparsely to densely stellate-pubescent with minute stellate hairs, upper surface sometimes glabrescent; petiole 10-35 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered racemose or paniculate cymes, terminal on main branches and on a few lateral branches which arise from distant upper, much reduced leaves; peduncles suberect, up to 16 mm long; bracts short and broad, often united at base, about 1 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long, often minutely glandular-pubescent. Calyx campanulate, wide at the mouth, about 6.5 mm long, lobed almost to middle, minutely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent with only a few minute glandular scales at base. Petals yellow to orange, at some stages red, about 10 mm long, the upper third oblong-orbicular, narrowing into a long claw with inrolled margins, rounded or slightly lobed where blade narrows into claw, appears glabrous but sometimes minute stellate pubescence and papillae obvious on inner face of claw. Stamens united at base around stipe, about 7 mm long with oblong hyaline filaments narrowing slightly to base; anthers ciliate 4 mm long, about as long as filaments and shortly overlapping them at base. Ovary about 4 mm long, entirely stellate-pubescent or only on sutures, papillate between, sutures narrowing slightly to base; stipe 1 mm long; styles about 5 mm long, exserted and persistent, appearing slightly clavate at apex. Capsule 7-10 mm long, minutely papillose between sutures, sometimes stellate on sutures and at apex, persistent calyx and stamens at base obscuring stipe, persistent styles at apex.