Compilation
Coleus somalensis

Subshrub or herb with fleshy-woody base, 0.2–1 m tall; stems moderately to densely pubescent with spreading usually 2–4 mm long hairs. Leaves petiolate, slightly fleshy, densely or moderately pubescent; blade ovate or ovate-elliptic, 15–70 × 12–50 mm, apex rounded, obtuse, acute or sometimes slightly acuminate, base cuneate or truncate and attenuate near the petiole, margin crenate. Inflorescences mostly lax; bracts early deciduous; cymes (3–)5–7-flowered, subsessile; pedicels often suberect and recurved in the apical part, 3–9 mm long in the fruiting stage, with long multicellular-stalked glandular hairs with narrow heads. Fruiting calyx ± upcurved, 4.5–9 mm long; upper lobe broadly ovate, concave, decurrent; lower lobes 2.5–4 mm long, as long as or very slightly longer than the lateral lobes. Corolla 8–18 mm long, violet or blue; tube short, strongly bent and almost spur-like at the bend, slightly but abruptly widened at the bend; lower lip 5–13 mm long, much longer than upper lip. Stamens connate. Nutlets c. 1.1 × 0.9 mm, black, glossy, producing mucilage when wet.