Hermannia umbratica I.Verd.

Procumbent plant with slender branches, the branches, petioles, peduncles and pedicels stellate-pubescent with long, many-celled, gland-tipped hairs intermixed, often one or other of these types of hairs predominant. Stipules oblong, oblong-lanceolate or deltoid oblong, sometimes oblique and rarely 2-3-lobed, 2-6 mm long, stellate-pubescent with short gland-tipped hairs intermixed. Leaves ovate-oblong to suborbicular, cordate, margins irregularly crenate, upper surface sparsely pubescent with 1-3-rayed stellate hairs, under surface coarsely pubescent with several-rayed stellate hairs; petiole16 mm long. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, geminate; peduncle 16-20 mm long; pedicel 2-12 mm, cernuous near the apex; bracts usually 3, 1-2-5 mm long. Calyx about 3-5 mm long, lobed to just beyond the middle, sparsely pubescent with stellate and short gland-tipped hairs; tube widely campanulate; lobes about 1-5 mm long, more or less deltoid. Petals yellow, rather narrowly obovate, 5-6 mm long, lower half with narrowly inrolled margins, glabrous. Stamens with cruciform filaments, about 1-5 mm long, lateral arms with apical setae; anthers about 2 mm long, acute, sparsely ciliate. Ovary stellate-tomentose; styles slender, erect. Capsule thinly stellate-tomentose, about 3-5 mm long, enclosed in the faded calyx and corolla, carpels rounded at the apex. Seeds reniform, smooth, black with a conspicuous whitish hilum.