Hermannia vestita Thunb.

Suffrutex, erect, bushy, up to about 60 cm tall but often smaller, densely tomentose on most parts with short-rayed stellate hairs radiating from a central scale, interspersed with usually longer rayed, grouped hairs on a scale which becomes detached and often with very minute, scattered, black-headed, gland-tipped, hairs; branches or branchlets often zig-zag. Stipules in upper parts of plant lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 mm long, 2-4 mm broad just above base, lower stipules smaller, 3-4 mm long, about 1 mm broad above base. Leaves petiolate; blade usually broadly ovate to suborbicular with a truncate or broadly cuneate base, varying in size even on same plant, from about 8 mm long and 7 mm broad just above base, to about 35 mm long and 30 mm broad (lower-most up to 45 mm long), some leaves in upper parts of plant narrowly ovate-lanceolate and cuneate in lower half, stellate-tomentose on both surfaces, strongly corrugated at least at margins, nerves prominent beneath obscurely 3-lobed as well as crenate at margin; petiole tomentose, 4-26 mm long. Inflorescence of 1 or more, 1-3-flowered cymes in axils of upper leaves and crowded at apices of ultimate branchlets or sometimes forming long, leafy, racemose cymes; mature flowers on herbarium specimens 6-10 mm long; bracts and bracteoles subulate to narrowly lanceolate, 2-10 mm long, up to 3 mm broad near base; peduncles and pedicels short, mostly under mm long. Calyx not or subinflated with age, urceolate to campanulate, narrowed at mouth when young, lobed almost to middle, stellate-tomentose with short hairs, often mixed with long hairs, in mature flowers on herbarium specimens measuring from 4.5 mm to 9 mm long. Petals orange to lemon-coloured, about 6 to 9 mm long, more or less oblong in upper third, then narrowed into a waist with infolded margins and produced below into a claw, stellate-pubescent in parts especially in waist. Stamens about 4 mm long, with broadly obovate to suborbicular hyaline filaments minutely pubescent on shoulders, anthers about 2.5 mm long, overlapping filament at base, ciliate. Ovary 5-lobed, about 2.5 mm long, stellate-tomentose, hairs long at apex; stipe about 1 mm long; styles cohering, about 5 mm long, minutely capitate at apex, exserted from flowers. Capsule enveloped by long-persistent calyx and corolla, about 5 mm long, stellate-tomentose with hairs short and long, 5-umbonate at the apex. Seeds reniform, corrugated, 1.5 x 1 mm, minutely papillose.