Plumbago tristis W.T.Aiton

Shrublet about 30 cm tall, much branched, shortly glandular-scabrid. Leaves obcordate-cuneate, 5-10 mm long, retuse-mucronate, tapering into a petiole 1-4 mm long, glabrous or minutely glandular-punctate. Inflorescence a few-to 16-flowered terminal spike 5-10 cm long; bracts 3, the lowest one ovate-lanceolate and the 2 lateral ones lanceolate, all about the same length, 3-5 mm long, pubescent. Calyx about 1 cm long, shortly 5-lobed, shortly viscid-pubescent and with long (up to 2 mm), red to black setae on the median rib of the sepals. Corolla dark orange-red, 2.5-2.75 cm long; tube about 2 cm long; lobes broadly obovate-oblong. Capsule acutely 5-angled with a few hairs on the angles above and on base of style.