Dicliptera cliffordii (K.Balkwill) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Evergreen suffruticose perennial up to 1 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate to elliptic, acuminate, entire, attenuate at base, 21-28 x 6-10 mm; slightly scabrid, with fine hairs and cystoliths; petiole 2-6 mm long. Inflorescence of monochasial cymes (inflorescence units) subtended by tertiary bracts, 2-3 inflorescence units umbellately arranged, occasionally compounded, inflorescence axis 2-8 mm long, longest peduncle of monochasial cymes 3-10 mm long. Bracts: secondary bracts 2, free, lanceolate, 0.6-2.2 x 0.3-0.6 mm, densely glandular-pubescent, sessile; tertiary bracts triangular, acuminate, 3-5 x 0.6-1.3 mm, ciliate on margins and veins, densely glandular, sessile. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx tube 1 mm long; lobes lanceolate 2.5 mm long, margins membranous and ciliate, densely glandular on outer surface. Corolla bilabiate, resupinate; tube narrowly cylindric below, subcampanulate above, 6.7-9 mm long, with 2 longitudinal hairy ridges within, sericeous, with abundant glandular trichomes; lip in lower position narrowly elliptic, entire, minutely emarginate, 8-14 x 2-3.5 mm; flower purple, rarely pink or white, with dark purple honey guides on white background on lip in upper position. Stamens 2, exserted, filaments epipetalous, linear, with curved and minute trichomes, white; anthers 2-thecous, thecae one below the other, introrse, purple. Disc shallowly cupular, top entire to slightly lobed with 2 very short stubby awns, nectariferous. Gynoecium: bicarpellate; stigma shortly bilobed; style exserted, filiform, sparsely strigose; ovary superior, with septum in median longitudinal axis, ovoid, scarcely pubescent, ovules 4, 2 in each locule. Fruit a short-stalked clavate capsule, 8-11 x 2-3.5 mm, minutely pubescent and glandular, placentae inelastic at bases and bearing retinacula. Seeds discoid, 2.1-2.8 x 2.2-2.5 mm, rough and tuberculate.