Hermannia concinnifolia

Hermannia concinnifolia is an erect shrublet reaching heights up to 90 cm. The narrow, wedge-shaped leaves are stalkless and have prominent stipules.

The yellow flower has a tiny throat inside the whorl of petals hiding one margin of every petal. The free petal margin outside the whorl recurves. The flower colour is partly coming from the brick red to light brown calyx with its prominent triangular lobes that cover much of the corolla and are roughly hairy.

The species is found on the coastal limestone region between Bredasdorp and Riversdale. The photo was taken in the De Hoop Nature Reserve (Manning, 2007).