Hermas lanata (Hill) Magee

Acaulescent, resprouting, evergreen herb, 150-250 mm (excluding inflorescence). Leaves in basal rosette, spreading, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 100-250 mm long, densely lanate, matted and shaggy; lamina ovate; 40-150 mm x 20-120 mm; base prominently cordate, apex broadly obtuse, margin crenulate, terminating in a small tubercle; adaxial surface grey-green, densely lanate, matted and shaggy; abaxial surface grey-white, densely felty and lanate. Synflorescences 300-800 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 0 to 5 smaller secondary umbels; peduncles stout, densely felty, lanate, matted and shaggy when young but becoming patchy and largely glabrescent on upper third; peduncular bracts 30-60 mm, oblong to foliose, densely felty and lanate. Umbels compound, 60-70 mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, 10 to 12, 10-15 mm long, grey-green, venation parallel, adaxial surface densely lanate, matted, abaxial surface lanate to partly glabrescent; rays ca. 40 to 60, 15-20 mm long at anthesis, green, glabrous; involucellar bracts 2 or 3, 5-8 mm long; lanceolate, green, apically lanate; raylets 6 to 12, ca 2 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; umbellules with 4 to 10 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 2 to 5 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, cream-coloured, veins 3, conspicuous; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, cream-coloured. Fruits ovate, base rounded to truncate, dorsally slightly compressed, ca. 2 to 2.5 x 1.5 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs narrowly-winged; median rib prominent, narrow.