Hermas villosa Thunb.

Caulescent, resprouting, evergreen shrubs, up to 600 mm (excluding inflorescence), evergreen. Stems prominent, 10-20 mm in diameter. Leaves regularly arranged or congested along upper part of branches, suberect, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 5-25 (40) mm long, densely felty; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic or ovate to narrowly ovate; (30) 60-180 mm x 20-60 mm; base cordate to cuneate, apex acute, margins regularly serrate to dentate, strongly revolute, acute, mucronate; adaxial surface green, glabrous to glabrescent; abaxial surface grey-white to rusty, densely felty. Synflorescences (150) 30-700 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 0 to 5 (8) smaller secondary umbels; peduncles stout, lanate in upper and lowermost portions, remainder glabrescent; peduncular bracts 5-50 mm, foliose to lanceolate, glabrescent. Umbels compound, (30) 40-95 (35) mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, 8 to 20, 520 mm long, green, venation parallel, adaxial surface glabrescent, abaxial surface glabrescent; rays 40 to 100, 15-30 mm long at anthesis, sparsely lanate to glabrescent; involucellar bracts 1 to 3, ca. 5-6 mm long; elliptic to lanceolate, green, glabrescent, sometimes with an abaxial tuft of lanate hairs; raylets 4 to 8, 4-6 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; umbellules with 1 or 2 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 3 to 6 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, cream, veins 1 with lateral pair sometimes present but inconspicuous; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, cream. Fruits ovate to transversely ovate, base cordate, dorsally compressed, ca. 4.0-5.0 x 3.5-4.0 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs winged; median rib prominent, becoming winged in lower third.