Lobostemon regulariflorus (Ker Gawl.) Buys

Resprouting shrub, 100-150 cm high. Branches acrocaulous, antrorse to retrorse, herbaceous and woody branches glabrous. Leaves herbaceous, acroramous, transversely recurved, longitudinally straight, dead basal leaves not persistent, (60-)80-140(-150) x (7-)10-15(-18) mm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, adaxially sparsely hairy, hairs more or less evenly spread, abaxially glabrous, indumentum umbonate, hairs similar in length, trichomes pustular; leaf margin entire; apex acuminate; mid-vein abaxially prominent. Inflorescence of many flowered, compound cincinni, young flowering axis compact, flower buds loosely arranged to form a globose unit, spreading slightly in fruiting stage. Bracts (15-)20-40(-50) x (4-)6-12(-15) mm, lanceolate. Flowers large (anterior petals longer than 30 mm), more than three per cymule, tubular. Sepals lanceolate, more than half of corolla length, dissimilar in width, three to four sepals partly fused, adaxially copiously hairy, non-velutinous, abaxially sparsely hairy, hairs unevenly spread, largely confined to margin and mid-vein; young apices applanate, brown trichomes on the adaxial surface wanting. Petals similar, posterior petals ca. 47 mm long, posterior petal lobes ca. 6-8 mm long, anterior petals ca. 47 mm long, anterior petal lobes ca. 6-8 mm long, red; abaxially hairy, hairs evenly spread. Stamens similar in length, included to exserted in adult flowers; anthers dorsifixed; filaments long adnate (> 5 mm) above staminal scales. Staminal scales inserted well below the throat of the corolla tube, 5.5-6.0 mm above the base of the corolla tube, reduced to mere swellings, lateral lobes wanting, villous, area between scales glabrous. Gynoecium 2-carpelled; ovary superior, 4-locular (via false septa); nectariferous disc present, longitudinally convex, transversely 4-angled; Style median sections hairy. Mericarpids ovoid-trigonous; smooth to slightly tuberculate near the base and ridges; hairs absent; lateral ridges inconspicuous; dorsal side more or less vertical; dorsal keel prominent; ventral keel inconspicuous.