Glekia

Twiggy shrublets; stems leafy, pubescence confined to two narrow ridges spanning internodes, hairs +/- retrorse, eglandular, but sometimes minute, patent, glandular. Leaves (and bracts) usually opposite and decussate, rarely subopposite, elliptical, gradually narrowed below into very short petiolar part, bases connate and decurrent in two narrow ridges, finely callose-toothed, thick, glandular-punctate and partly puberulous. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, forming terminal, racemose, round heads, oblong in fruit, sometimes further arranged in corymbose panicles. Bracts adnate to pedicel and halfway up calyx tube. Calyx bilabiate, 5-lobed, membranous; lobes unequal, ciliate. Corolla bilabiate, thick-textured, not persistent; tube cylindrical below, abruptly campanulate above, glabrous outside, inside heavily bearded round mouth with unicellular clavate hairs; posterior lip 2-lobed with orange patch at base extending down inflated part of tube, exterior in bud; anterior lip 3-lobed; lobes entire, rotund. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments short, arising in throat, not decurrent down tube; posterior pair lying in throat; anterior pair exceeding posterior pair, shortly exserted; anthers dorsifixed, synthecate; staminodes 0. Nectary at base of ovary, on shorter side. Ovary bilocular, elliptical; ovules +/- 9-16 per locule; style long, filiform, passing gradually into lingulate stigma with two marginal bands of stigmatic papillae, exserted. Fruit a septicidal capsule with a short loculicidal split at tip of each valve. Seeds obscurely 3-angled or flattened, irregularly wrinkled on one face; testa tightly investing endosperm, opaque, creamy or pale amber.