Dicliptera cernua (Nees) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Erect, straggling or trailing perennial herb or subshrub, 80-200 cm tall; stems 6-angular, ± pale-ridged, glabrous, nodal line pale-hispid. Leaves sometimes absent at flowering, ovate, 1.5-4.5 x 0.5-2 cm, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute or attenuate, mucronulate, surfaces glabrous except for few conspicuous pale hispid hairs on margin towards base and sometimes on midrib beneath; lateral veins 4-5 pairs; petiole 2.5-6 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, 1-2 umbels of 2-4 cymules per axil, umbels sometimes partially compounded, together sometimes forming rather slender terminal pseudopanicles on largely leafless branches; umbel peduncles 4-17 mm long, rather densely puberulous with mixed eglandular and capitate-glandular hairs; main axis bracts often caducous, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 x 0.5 mm; cymules pedunculate, longest peduncle in each umbel 7-14 mm long, lateral peduncles often abruptly bent at apex; cymule bracts green, pairs unequal, ratio 1.1-1.65:1, larger bract subulate, 5-11 x 0.9-1.3 mm, apex shortly attenuate, outer surface puberulous with mixed eglandular and capitate-glandular hairs, only midrib prominent, margin narrowly pale-hyaline; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 4.5-7 mm long. Calyx pale green-brown, lobes 2.7-3.3 mm long, ciliate, surface glandular-puberulent or sparsely so. Corolla 19-22.5 mm long, pale pink or white tinged purple, eglandular-pubescent and with few short glandular hairs externally; tube 7-9.5 mm long; lip held in upper position narrowly oblong, 9.5-13.5 x 3.3-3.8 mm, palate sparsely puberulous at mouth; lip held in lower position oblong-elliptic to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 11-13.5 x 5.5-6.5 mm. Stamens markedly unequal, the longer with filament 10.5-12.5 mm long, largely glabrous; anther thecae 0.9-1.1 mm long, superposed but touching. Style glabrous. Capsule 10-15 mm long, puberulous on fertile portion with mixed eglandular and glandular hairs, rather sparse at maturity; placental base inelastic. Seeds 1.7-2.2 mm in diameter, tuberculate, tubercles minutely hooked.

It is a Mediterranean climate plant.