Hermannia ternifolia C.Presl ex Harv.

Suffrutex, erect to sprawling, branches slender with small but prominent leaf-bases, densely covered with fringed scales, in parts finely tomentose as well. Stipules leafy, narrowly oblong-cuneate, oblanceolate or spathulate, from about 7-12 mm long, 1-2.5 mm broad near apex, on both sides with stellate scales forming a tomentum. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade obovate, tapering at base into short petiole, subtruncate or rounded and crenate at apex, from about 7 to 14 mm long and 6-10 mm broad near the apex, stellate-tomentose as on stipules; petiole 1-7 mm long. Inflorescence of a few, usually 1-flowered cymes, terminal and in axils of upper leaves, “orange-yellow”, “red to orange” or “marmalade-coloured”; peduncles short and stout or up to 5 mm long. Calyx about 7 mm long, inflated, oblong to subglobose, somewhat 5angled, squamulose with minute fringed scales, lobed to about one-third of its length; lobes broadly ovate, mucronulate; sinuses narrow. Petals about 13 mm long, strongly convolute, apical portion spreading to recurved; limb oblong-obovate, about 6 mm long, narrowing abruptly into a claw about 7 mm long, scaly-stellate on sides above and with infolded margins for most of length below. Stamens with oblong hyaline filaments about 5 mm long; anthers 3 mm long, minutely ciliate. Ovary with a very short, 0.5 mm long) stipe, 3.5 mm long, somewhat 5-angled, tomentose with short stellate hairs except at apex where hairs are slightly longer; styles cohering, 5 mm long.