Well-branched dwarf shrublet up to 150-400 mm tall, branches erect, decumbent or ascending, young parts thickly clad in glistening glands, glandular hairs up to c. 0.1-0.2 mm long as well on uppermost parts, sometimes more conspicuous than the glistening glands, very leafy except on the floriferous parts. Leaves opposite becoming alternate on the inflorescence branches, pseudofasciculate, largest primary leaves c. 3-11 x 1-7 mm, spathulate in outline, thick-textured and sometimes conduplicate, apex obtuse to subacute, base narrowing into a broad petiolar part, upper 1/3-2/3 with up to 4 pairs of lobes mostly cut 1/2-3/4 of the way to the midrib, sometimes the lowermost one or two pairs nearly or quite to the midrib, oblong or narrowly spathulate, often entire, occasionally the largest with 1-3 small teeth, lower surface thickly clad in glistening glands, a few very minute glandular hairs as well mainly on petiolar part, upper surface glabrous or with a few minute glandular hairs. Flowers borne singly in the axils of the uppermost leaves, which decrease rapidly in size upwards. Pedicels up to 12-24 mm long, glandular-pubescent, hairs up to 0.1-0.25 mm long, very few glistening glands. Calyx tube 0.2-0.3 mm long, lobes 2.2-3.2 x 0.6-0.7 mm, oblong, obtuse to subacute, glandular-puberulous, hairs up to 0. 1-0.2 mm long, glistening glands as well. Corolla tube 7-9 x 1.8-2 mm in throat, cylindric, abruptly expanded near apex, limb oblique, c. 7-13 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 3-6 x 2-4 mm, anticous lobe 2.8-7 x 1.8-4.2 mm, all lobes oblong to cuneate, apex more or less truncate, retuse, glandular-puberulous outside, hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm long, glistening glands as well particularly on backs of lobes, transverse band of clavate hairs in throat extending briefly onto lower lip, lobes often purple to violet blue, sometimes white, throat yellow/orange. Stamens: posticous filaments 0.8-1.3 mm long, anthers 0.7-1.1 mm, anticous filaments 0.4-0.8 mm, anthers 0.4-0.7 mm, all filaments minutely puberulous. Stigma 0.2 mm long. Style 4-6.3 mm. Ovary 2 x 0.7-1 mm. Capsules 5-6.5 x 2.5-3 mm, often streaked with purple, glistening glands ± confined to sutures, minutely glandular-puberulous or glabrous elsewhere. Seeds c. 0.5-0.7 x 0.4-0.5 mm. Flowers can be found in any month.
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Dwarf shrub, up to 400 mm high; well branched, leafy in vegetative parts. Leaves largest primary ones spathulate, thick, conduplicate (folded in half along midrib), obtuse to subacute, petiolate, upper parts cut, up to V of way to midrib, lobes oblong or narrowly spathulate, entire. Flowers single, in uppermost leaf axils, leaves rapidly getting smaller upwards, forming nearly nude terminal inflorescences. Pedicels up to 24 mm long. Calyx: tube up to 0.3 mm long; lobes oblong, ± obtuse. Corolla: tube up to 9 mm long; limb oblique; lobes oblong to cuneate, truncate, retuse, purple to blue, mauve or white, throat yellow/orange. Flowering time all year.
Densely leafy, glandular shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves lobed, leathery. Flowers axillary among reduced leaves, purple to mauve, rarely white, with yellow throat.
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