Hermannia stipulacea Lehm. ex Eckl. & Zeyh.

Suffrutex, erect or sprawling with ascending branches, branches laxly, rarely subdensely, stellate-pubescent, hairs few and long, rarely short from a scaly base. Stipules leaf-like, about half the size of leaves or over half, ovate-acuminate to ovate-lanceolate, cordate at base, from 3.5-11 mm long, 1-7 mm broad near base, laxly and distinctly stellate-pubescent. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, sometimes erect and somewhat imbricate; blade oblong, oblong-cuneate, sometimes narrowly so, 4-16 mm long, 2-6 mm broad, apex acute, rounded to broadly rounded or subtruncate, usually broadest near the apex which if often lobed, base rounded, laxly but distinctly and strongly stellate on both surfaces, hairs long; petiole up to 2 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-to 2-flowered cymes in axils of upper leaves and at the apices of the branchlets; peduncle from 3-20 mm long; pedicels 1-7 mm long; bracts usually 3, 1 long and 2 shorter (the much reduced leaf and 2 stipules), ovate, lanceolate or subulate, 1.5-6 mm long, 0.5-3 mm broad, stellate-pubescent as on leaves, at least along margins. Calyx about 6.5 mm long, lobed almost to middle, densely yellow scaly-tomentose and stellate-hispid, hairs long, lobes about 3 mm long, deltoid-acute. Petals about 9.5 mm long, subglobose in upper third, narrowed into a densely ciliate waist and produced into a claw with infolded margins. Stamens about 6 mm long, filaments hyaline, oblong-cuneate, ciliate on shoulders, overlapped by anther bases; anthers 3 mm long, acute, ciliate. Ovary oblong, about 2 mm long, shallowly 5-lobed, subglabrous or shortly stellate below, densely stellate at the apex of each locule, hairs long; stipe 0.5 mm. Capsule shortly exserted from persistent calyx, about 6 mm long, stellate-hairy.