Hermannia rugosa Adamson

Shrublet, rigid, spreading-erect, ruderal, 30-60 cm tall; branches rough with tubercle-based hairs. Stipules narrowly to broadly ovate, acuminate to abruptly acuminate, rounded or cordate to semi-cordate and decurrent at base. Leaves petiolate; blade varying in shape and size, narrowly to broadly ovate to obovate, rounded or broadly cuneate to cuneate at base, crenate and crisped on margins, minutely densely stellate on both surfaces, sometimes whitish tomentose on lower surface, nerves prominent beneath; petiole about 3-7 mm long. Inflorescence of racemose cymes, cymes 1 or more at a node, 1-3-flowered, the terminal with flowers appearing clustered, branches of inflorescence stellate-pubescent with hairs short from a scaly base or longer from a tubercled base, gland-tipped hairs sometimes present; bracts like stipules; bracteoles deltoid to subulate. Calyx somewhat salver-shaped, 5.5 mm long, 5-angled in upper half, lobed to almost midway, sinuses wide, densely stellate-pubescent, the hairs long from a small reddish brown, tubercular base mixed with short hairs from a central scale. Petals “golden yellow”, “orange-red” or “yellow and red”, 9-12 mm long, twisted, oblong to suborbicular in upper half narrowing to a claw with infolded margins. Stamens about 6 mm long with hyaline, obovate filaments. Ovary about 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed; stipe 0.75 mm long; styles about 5 mm long. Capsule enclosed by persistent perianth, densely stellate-pubescent.