Lobostemon laevigatus H.Buek

Resprouting shrub, 60-140 cm high. Branches caulous, antrorse, herbaceous and woody branches glabrous. Leaves herbaceous, cauline, transversely applanate to incurved, longitudinally straight, dead basal leaves not persistent, (21-)24-38(-40) x (3-)4-15(-16) mm, lanceolate to ovate, adaxially appearing glabrous but sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and apex, abaxially appearing glabrous but sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin, apex and mid-vein, indumentum spinous and umbonate, hairs similar in length, trichomes simple or pustular; leaf margin entire; apex acute; mid-vein abaxially unobtrusive. Inflorescence of many flowered, compound cincinni, branches densely aggregated, spreading slightly in fruiting stage. Bracts (4-)5-17(-19) x (1-)3-9(-10) mm, lanceolate to ovate. Flowers small (anterior petals 17-30 mm long), more than three per cymule, funnel-shaped. Sepals linear to lanceolate, less than to half of corolla length, dissimilar in width, free, adaxially sparsely hairy, hairs more or less evenly spread across the whole surface, abaxially glabrous to 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. 10-11 mm long, posterior petal lobes ca. 2 mm long, anterior petals ca. 12-15 mm long, anterior petal lobes ca. 3 mm long, violet-blue; abaxially glabrous. Stamens dissimilar in length, all 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, 4 mm above the base of the corolla tube (ca. ? of the way up the tube), usually well-developed, triangular, 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 prominent (especially near the apex).