Blepharis subvolubilis C.B.Clarke

Erect to procumbent or trailing perennial or shrubby herb with several stems from woody rootstock; stems to 50 cm long, glabrous to minutely puberulous or minutely sericeous-puberulous (hairs upward-directed). Leaves often shiny (varnished), glabrous to uniformly sericeous-puberulous beneath, densest on midrib with often glabrous lamina, scabrid above, one in the whorl often much larger than the other three; lamina linear-lanceolate to elliptic, largest 2-11.5 x (0.2-)0.4-1.5 cm, with 1-20 small to large and triangular teeth per side or some (rarely all) entire. Spikes 2-8.5 cm long, 4-12-flowered; peduncle 5-30(-40) mm long, normally some or all over 10 mm, with 3-6 pairs of sterile bracts, usually all in upper half of peduncle; fertile bracts glossy, greenish to brownish, sometimes becoming partly white between veins or with white veins and edges, subglabrous to sericeous-puberulous or sericeous, often only along veins and with glabrous lamina, sometimes with longer hairs along veins, 5-7-veined from base, lower and middle elliptic-obovate or broadly so, 23-45 x 7-20(-24) mm of which the slightly to strongly recurved narrowly triangular to triangular spinose tip (6-)8-18 mm, on each side with 4-9 teeth of which the longest 4-11 mm. Bracteoles 15-28 x 0.5-2.5 mm, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to cuspidate, base slightly widened, sericeous-puberulous or sparsely so and ciliate. Sepals glabrous to sericeous-puberulous or sericeous, often only on veins and glabrous towards base, more rarely hairy to base, sometimes with longer hairs on veins, ciliate; dorsal 18-27 mm long, 3-7-veined from base, 3(-4)-veined at apex, veins branching near apex, ovate-elliptic, apical part ligulate to spathulate with truncate (rarely rounded to subacute), irregularly toothed, wavy, scarious apex; ventral 13-23 mm long, 2-5-veined from base, ovate-elliptic, narrowing to an apex with two triangular mucronate teeth 1-6 mm long (rarely with 1-2 additional central teeth); lateral 8-12 mm long, ovate, acute to cuspidate. Corolla bright blue or bright purple (rarely white), 24-37 mm long of which the tube 4-8 mm; limb broadly obovate, 13-28 mm wide, beneath finely to densely hairy all over, central lobe wider than long or same length, truncate to emarginate, narrowed at base; filaments (7-)8-12 mm long, glabrous or sparsely glandular, staminode occasionally present; appendage 1-5 mm long, straight or curved; anthers 3.5-6 mm long. Capsule 11-13 mm long, often 1-seeded; seed 5-7 x ± 4 mm.