Syncolostemon stenophyllus (Gürke) D.F.Otieno

Soft shrub 0.3-0.9 m tall, usually with several stems arising from a perennial rootstock; stems shortly stellate-tomentose. Leaves subsessile; blade linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, 12-30 x 3-5 mm, upper surface grey to blackish and finely pubescent, under-surface densely grey stellate-velvety, apex acute, base obtuse, margin revolute, entire. Inflorescence simple or with 1 or 2 pairs of branches near the base, 80-180 mm long; verticils 4.6-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 mm long, persisting as a mauve-purple coma. Calyx 7-8 mm long at maturity, glandular-hispidulous. Corolla pale mauve to rosy mauve, c. 13 mm long; tube c. 10 mm long, widening to 3 mm at the mouth; lower lip 3 mm long, deflexed. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached about the middle of the corolla tube, pubescent in the lower part; lower pair united to near the apex. Stigma minutely bifid.