Hermas ciliata L.F.

Acaulescent, resprouting, evergreen herb, 40-80 mm tall (excluding inflorescence). Leaves in basal rosette, procumbent, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 15-60 mm long, usually glabrescent, margins villose; lamina lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 28-75 mm x 10-50 mm; base attenuate to cuneate; apex acute to attenuate; margins ± entire, setose; adaxial surface green, glabrous to glabrescent; abaxial surface grey-white, felty. Synflorescences 500-850 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 1 to 5 smaller secondary umbels, often verticillately arranged; peduncles slender, glabrous throughout or glabrescent at the base; peduncular bracts lanceolate, 10-25 mm, setose. Umbels compound, 35-70 mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, 10 to 14, ca. 10 mm long, venation parallel; rays 36 to 50, 20-35 mm long at anthesis, glabrous; involucellar bracts 1 or 2, 3-8 mm long, spathulate, glabrous; raylets 5 to 7, 3-5 mm long at anthesis, glabrous; umbellules with 1 to 6 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 1 to 6 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, ca. 1.5 mm long, elliptic, apex acute, cream-coloured, veins 1 with lateral pair sometimes present but inconspicuous; petals filiform, strongly inflexed or coiled, cream-coloured. Fruits broadly ovate, base cordate, dorsally compressed, 3.0-4.5 mm x 2.5-4.0 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous, lateral ribs winged; median rib prominent, becoming winged in lower third.