Equilabium petiolare
Equilabium petiolare is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to southern Mozambique and South Africa.
Description
This species is a perennial, freely branched herb growing up to tall. The stems spread or ascend and are fairly densely hairy, with noticeable tufts of longer hairs at the nodes.The leaves are borne on long stalks long. The leaf blades are thin-textured and broadly ovate to triangular in shape, measuring long and wide. Both surfaces are sparsely to fairly densely covered with stiff hairs, and the undersides show tiny colourless gland dots. Leaf tips range from blunt to pointed, the bases are truncate to slightly heart-shaped, and the margins are coarsely scalloped to toothed, often with smaller secondary teeth.
The inflorescence is usually unbranched or has one or two pairs of short branches near the base, forming racemes long. The flowers occur in small, sessile clusters of one to three, forming loose whorls of two to six flowers spaced apart.
The calyx reaches up to in fruit and is covered with fine glandular hairs. The corolla is deep violet to purple, often with bluish lips, and measures long. The floral tube is gently S-shaped, narrow at the base and widening towards the throat. The upper lip is long, while the lower lip is shallowly boat-shaped and long. The stamens are free and long.