Plectranthus verticillatus Druce

Perennial semi-succulent herb; stems procumbent to ascending, branching, up to 1.2 m long, often rising to 0.25 m above the ground, glabrous to shortly pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade softly to distinctly succulent, ovate to rotund, 16-40 x 12-40 mm, subglabrous to pubescent, under-surface with red to brownish gland-dots, apex acute to rounded, base truncate to cuneate, margin crenate-dentate to shallowly crenate with 3-6 pairs of teeth; petiole 6-30 mm long. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, racemes 40-220 mm long (usually about 100-150 mm); flowers in sessile 1-3-flowered cymes forming 2-6-flowered verticils about 6-15 mm apart; bracts persisting beyond flowering stage. Calyx up to 7 mm long in fruiting stage, erect, not gibbous at the base; uppermost tooth erect, ovate, acute; 4 lower teeth spreading, linear-subulate, the lower pair the longer. Corolla white to pale mauve with a few mauve spots on the upper lip or freely speckled with purplish spots, 9-25 mm long; tube deflexed and expanded to a slightly saccate base, scarcely narrowing to the throat; upper lip 5-8 mm long; lower lip shallowly boat-shaped, horizontal, 5-7 mm long. Stamens free to the base, curved in the lower lip, 5-7 mm long.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.