Brachystephanus

Herbs, subshrubs or shrubs, with adventitious roots, with multicellular, sometimes glandular hairs; stem angular, tomentose to glabrescent. Leaves attenuate, caudate, subentire to crenate, petiolate but those subtending inflorescence often almost sessile. Inflorescences spicate or paniculate, terminal and axillary; bract and bracteoles present. Calyx : sepals 5, separate nearly to base, subequal or unequal, linear. Corolla 2-lipped; tube very long and slender; lobes subequal, subentire. Androecium : stamens 2, far exserted, arising in mouth of tube; anthers 1-thecous, dorsifixed, obtuse; staminodes absent. Gynoecium : ovary fusiform, glabrous; ovules 2 per locule; style glabrous; stigma +/-capitate. Capsule small, oblong, usually 4-seeded. Seeds obovoid, compressed, muricate, without hairs.