Hermannia pillansii Compton

Suffrutex, low, branching from base, young branches densely stellate-hirsute. Stipules narrowly to broadly ovate, acuminate, broad ones abruptly acuminate at apex and cordate at base, 4-6 mm long, 1-4 mm broad at base, densely stellate-pubescent. Leaves sessile, obovate-cuneate, up to 10 mm long, 5 mm broad near apex, crenate except on cuneate base, densely stellate-pubescent to tomentose on both surfaces with hairs both short and long. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes clustered at apices of ultimate branchlets; peduncles 4-8 mm long; pedicels short, 2-4 mm long; bracteoles narrowly ovate-acuminate, up to 6 mm long. Calyx 5 mm long, lobed to almost midway, densely stellate-hispid, hairs rather long, light yellow. Petals about 7 mm long, more or less oblong in upper third, narrowed into a densely ciliate waist and produced below into a claw with infolded margins. Stamens 4.5 mm long; filaments narrowly obovate, not or only slightly broader than anthers, hyaline, overlapped by anther bases, anthers 2 mm long, ciliate. Ovary subglobose, shallowly 5-lobed, 3 mm long whitish stellate-tomentose; stipe 0.5 mm long; styles 4 mm long. Capsule about 4 mm long, enclosed in the calyx, thinly whitish tomentose.