Hermannia procumbens Cav.

Suffrutex, stems one to many from a woody base, decumbent, slender, sparingly branched at base and sometimes with a few, short, ascending branchlets produced in axils of leaves along the trailing stem, new growth with appressed stellate pubescence, glabrescent, upper internodes long. Stipules ovate-oblong, ovate-lanceolate, semi-orbicular, 2-45 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, broadly acuminate to abruptly narrowed into an acumen, occasionally rounded at apex. Leaves usually solitary at a node, upper distant, petiolate; blade 10-35 mm long, varying in shape and degree of lobing, from oblong-cuneate and coarsely lobed to bi-or tri-pinnatisect and then fragile, fairly sparsely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent; petiole 3-15 mm long. Inflorescence of few-flowered, leafless, racemose cymes, terminal on ascending branches and branchlets; flowers secund and often crowded at apex; pedicels short, up to 5 mm long. Calyx 5-7 mm long, from broadly campanulate (sub-inflated) and about half as long as petals to narrowly campanulate (not at all inflated) and more than half as long as petals, lobed to above the middle, lobes either broad-based and rounded with an acute apex, or deltoid to narrowly deltoid from a narrow base, glabrescent, sometimes with minute hairs persisting on margins and apex of lobes. Petals strongly twisted, 8-11 mm long, 3-5 mm broad in upper half, evenly narrowing into claw or broadest on one side and sometimes auricled on one side, claw about as long as upper portion, apparently glabrous or rarely a few hairs on inrolled margins. Stamens about 6.5 mm long, with narrow to fairly broad, obovate-cuneate, hyaline, glabrous filaments about 4 mm long; anthers 3 mm long, ciliate. Ovary about 2.5 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent, 5-lobed; stipe 4-5 mm long. Capsule up to 8 x 7 mm, 5-lobed, stellate-pubescent, subglabrescent, with the persistent calyx surrounding base.