Teucrium africanum Thunb.

Greyish, bushy shrublet 0.1-0.25(-0.3) m tall, branching freely from the base; stems erect to decumbent, simple or sparingly branched, slender, greyish glandular-tomentulose. Leaves sessile, grey-green, thinly pubescent, 8-30 mm long, 3-lobed to 3-partite; lobes linear to linear-oblong, 5-25 x 1-3 mm, occasionally the median lobe again 3-fid; margin entire, revolute; basal portion of leaf narrow, up to 3 mm broad, consisting of a narrowly winged midrib. Inflorescence leafy, simple, occupying the upper third or half of the stem; flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 per peduncle; peduncle 3-8 mm long bearing a pair of minute bracteoles below the middle. Calyx greyish, 3-4 mm long; teeth lanceolate-deltoid, about 2 mm long. Corolla 5-6 mm long; tube 2 mm long; lower lip obovate, 3-4 mm long, slightly concave, remaining 4 lobes oblong, rounded, 2 mm long. Anthers exserted by 6-7 mm.