Justicia campylostemon T.Anderson

Shrub or shrublet, rarely scrambling, 0.3-3.0(-7.0) m high. Leaves glabrous to sparsely pubescent, ovate to lanceolate, 20-190 x 13-84 mm, apex obtuse or usually broadly attenuate, base cuneate or slightly oblique, lamina glossy or slightly discolorous; petiole slender, 4-20 mm long. Inflorescence of raceme-like compound cymes, axillary, paired at nodes, branching, with each branch subtended by a pair of minute subulate bracts, 2 or 3 sessile or pedicellate flowers at the end of each branch. Bract 1. Bracteoles 2, minute, subulate or lanceolate. Calyx glandular. Corolla with upper lip hooded, 9-18 mm long, white, cream or greenish with maroon speckles in throat. Anthers with lower locule sometimes nearly ecaudate. Pollen 3-colporate, 45-53 µm long, sexine with entire margocolpus. Capsule 4-seeded, cylindrical, up to 20 mm long, with a long stipe. Seeds rugose, without long barbed scales.