Syncolostemon teucriifolius (Hochst.) D.F.Otieno

Bushy herb 0.15-0.3 m tall, with few to many erect or ascending stems arising annually from a perennial woody rootstock; stems slender, usually simple, greyish stellate-pubescent. Leaves sessile; blade subcoriaceous, linear to lanceolate or elliptic, 8-18 x 3-6 mm, upper surface blackish, stellate-scabrid; under-surface greyish stellate-tomentose, apex acute, base obtuse, margin revolute, entire. Inflorescence simple, 40-80 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered, in the axils of persistent somewhat leaf-like bracts, 4-6 x 2-3 mm. Calyx 5-6 mm long at maturity, stellate-pubescent. Corolla mauve, 10-12 mm long; tube 9-10 mm long, tubular, 2.5 mm wide, slightly constricted at the throat, glabrous; lower lip 2 mm long. Stamens shortly exserted, not or scarcely exceeding the lower lip; upper pair attached below the middle of the tube, filaments puberulous in the lower half; lower pair united for half or more of their length. Stigma minutely bifid.