Lobostemon glaucophyllus Buek.

Resprouting shrub, 50-100 cm high. Branches caulous, antrorse, herbaceous and woody branches glabrous. Leaves herbaceous, cauline, transversely applanate to incurved, longitudinally straight, dead basal leaves not persistent, (10-)12-40(-50) x (2-)3-14(-20) mm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate to oblanceolate, adaxially appearing glabrous but sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and apex, abaxially appearing glabrous but sparsely hairy, hairs evenly or unevenly spread, if unevenly spread then largely confined to margin, apex and mid-vein, indumentum spinous and umbonate, hairs similar in length, trichomes simple or pustular; leaf margin entire; apex acuminate or acute; mid-vein abaxially unobtrusive. Inflorescence of many flowered, compound cincinni, young flowering axis unelongated, flower buds loosely arranged to form a globose unit, spreading or not spreading greatly in fruiting stage. Bracts (4-)6-15(-18) x (3-)4-8(-9) mm, ovate. Flowers small (anterior petals 17-30 mm long) to medium sized (anterior petals 17-30 mm long), more than three per cymule, funnel-shaped. Sepals linear to lanceolate, less than to half of corolla length, similar in width, free, adaxially sparsely hairy, hairs more or less evenly or not evenly spread across the whole surface-then confined to margin and apex, abaxially sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and apex, non-velutinous; young apices applanate, brown trichomes on the adaxial surface wanting. Petals dissimilar, the anterior petal lobes larger than the rest, posterior petals ca. 12-14 mm long, posterior petal lobes ca. 3 mm long, anterior petals ca. 14-16 mm long, anterior petal lobes ca. 4 mm long, white-cream to mostly violet-blue; abaxially glabrous. Stamens 5 (rarely 6), apostemonous, epipetalous, dissimilar in length, slightly exserted in adult flowers; anthers dorsifixed; filaments free from petals to shortly adnate (< 5 mm) above staminal scales. Staminal scales inserted below the throat of the corolla tube, 3-4 mm above the base of the corolla tube (ca. 1/4 of the way up the tube), usually well-developed, rounded, lateral lobes present, villous, area between scales also hairy. Style median sections hairy. Mericarpids ovoid-trigonous; tuberculate; hairs absent, lateral ridges prominent; dorsal side acute; dorsal keel prominent; ventral keel inconspicuous.