Plectranthus laxiflorus Benth.

Perennial freely-branched herb or soft shrub 0.7-1.5 m tall; stems ascending or spreading, sparingly to densely glandular-pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade thin-textured to somewhat rugose, broadly ovate-deltoid, 60-100 x 40-60 mm, thinly pubescent, under-surface with reddish gland-dots (sometimes not easily visible), apex acute to acuminate, base cordate, margin regularly and finely crenate-dentate; petiole 25-80 mm long. Inflorescence simple or laxly branched, racemes 100-300 mm long; flowers in usually 3-flowered pedunculate(rarely subsessile) cymes forming usually 6-flowered verticils. Calyx up to 7 mm long in fruiting stage, glandular-pubescent. Corolla whitish to pale mauve, 12-14 mm long, with 4-5 purple vertical lines on the upper lip; tube more or less sigmoid, not expanding at the base, narrow and ascending for 2.5 mm then deflexed and expanding to 2.5 mm deep at the throat; upper lip 6-7 mm long; lower lip boat-shaped, somewhat ascending, 5-7 mm long. Stamens free, about 5 mm long.

It is a tropical plant. It grows between 15-1,800 m above sea level. It grows on the edges of forests and along shady river banks.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.