Growth form:shrub
Growth location: Terrestrial
Growth Environment: Outside COM-Library
Growth Zone: Tropical
Average Height: 60 cm
Stem: highly branched, red, and smooth
Leaf Arrangement: whorled
Stipule: present
Shape: round
Color: dark violet
Feature: very unusual
Petioles: Present with auxillary bud
Length: 1.5 cm to the leaf blade
Surface: smooth
Leaf Blade: crenate margin, ovate in shape, acute venation, pinnate
Inflorescence: panicle, has 4 branches rebranching from the main axis in the whorl arrangement which often consist of an arrangement of flowers on each branches.
Flower: Zygomorphic, Panicle
Calyx: Does not diffuse, is whole size of a wheat
Corolla: bilabiate, two lipped, petals are purple.
Ovary: half inferior
Fruit: none
Seed: none
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Collected by: Graham Henry and Darlynn Henry