Hermannia rudis N.E.Br.

Low suffrutex, branching at base, branches spreading, ascending, sub-branched, upper ultimate branches short, rough, fairly sparsely stellate-pubescent or hispid with a few stiff hairs from a raised tubercle. Stipules lanceolate to oblanceolate, narrowly ovate-oblong or ovate, acute, 3-7 mm long, 0.5-3.5 mm broad. Leaves sessile or with a petiole up to 7 mm long; blade obovate-cuneate, 10-25 mm long 6-15 mm broad, broadly rounded to subtruncate and coarsely toothed at apex, roughly stellate-pubescent on both surfaces, glabrescent, often hispid on margins with stiff hairs from a tubercle. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes in the axils of upper and subterminal leaves of branches and the many, short, lateral branchlets; peduncles and pedicels very short, rarely up to 3 mm long. Calyx often red (not visible in dried specimens), hispid, especially on veins, with tubercle-based hairs, 7-8 mm long, lobed to midway, lobes oblong and abruptly narrowed into an apicule which is incurved (calyx lobes look truncate). Petals twisted, “pink”, “pale yellow”, “yellow-orange”, 4-8.5 mm long, scarcely or shortly exserted from calyx; limb oblong narrowing about midway and then produced below into a fairly broad claw with infolded margins, pubescent at middle on rim with tubercle-based hairs. Stamens with hyaline filaments, oblong, slightly narrowed to base, about 3.3 mm long; anthers 2 mm long. Capsule bluntly pentagonal, lobes rounded at apex, hispid with tufted hairs on angles and apex, finely stellate-pubescent or glabrescent between angles.