Coleus australis

Non-aromatic shrub, 10–70 cm high, with fleshy, c. tuberous base; branches dying away after flowering, usually with moderately dense, short, glandular and longer multicelular spreading or sometimes retrorse eglandular hairs. Leaves orbicular-ovate to ovate, or to oblong-ovate, lamina 2–6.5 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, both surfaces of mature leaves usually sparsely hairy, with eglandular hairs under 1 mm long, the undersurface also with sessile, reddish glands, apex obtuse to subacute, margin crenate to crenate-dentate with 4–6(–12) pairs of teeth; petiole 0.5–5 cm long. Bracts of developing inflorescence early deciduous, ovate, 1–1.3 mm wide. Calyx at anthesis c. 1.5 mm long (4–5 mm long in fruit); corolla 6–11 mm long, the mid-lobe white to pale lilace, upper (adaxial) lobes usually darker, lobes usually with a few hairs externally and sessile glands externally, tube decurved at an angle of 110°–140°. Seed lenticular, dark brown, shining, 0.8–0.9 mm diam. Flowers throughout the year.