Compilation
Crossandra smithii

Erect or straggling to scrambling perennial or shrubby herb to 1.5 m tall; young stems glabrous to sericeous-puberulous. Leaves in whorls of 4; sessile or petiole up to 1.5(–4) cm long; lamina ovate to elliptic, largest 6.5–18(–23)≈2–7 cm, apex subacuminate to acute (rarely rounded), the actual tip rounded, subglabrous to puberulous (rarely pubescent), densest on veins. Spikes 2–8.5 cm long; peduncles 2–18 cm long, puberulous or sparsely so (rarely pubescent); fertile bracts ovate to elliptic or broadly so (rarely obovate or narrowly ovate), 12–33≈4–16 mm, length/width-ratio 1.3–2.2(–3), narrowing gradually to an acute tip with a straight mucro up to 0.5 mm long, finely puberulous or sparsely so and with usually dense stalked capitate glands, ciliate on edges (sometimes also on veins) from long many-celled hairs, with 3–5 longitudinal veins and raised reticulum; bracteoles 8–18 mm long, finely puberulous, with long capitate glands, ciliate. Sepals acuminate to cuspidate, finely puberulous and with sparse to dense capitate glands towards tip, dorsal broadly elliptic, 8–17 mm long, ventral ovate-elliptic, 8–17 mm long, lateral 6–14 mm long. Corolla light red to bright red or scarlet (? sometimes orange); tube 20–32 mm long, straight, not infundibuliformapically; limb 10–16 mm long. Capsule ± 14 mm long. Seed ± 3≈3 mm.