Compilation
Lankesteria alba

Perennial or shrubby herb, erect or more often with prostrate sometimes branched stems which root at the nodes and produce further erect stems; erect stems to 25 cm tall, prostrate stems to 50 cm long, when young sparsely to densely puberulous to pubescent, older stems with papery peeling bark. Leaves elliptic to obovate or narrowly so, largest 3–14≈1–4.5 cm, apex subacuminate to broadly rounded, base attenuate, decurrent to the stem or with an up to 5 mm long petiole, sparsely pilose-pubescent, densest along veins with lamina sometimes glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, 1–5(–7) cm long, subsessile; axis pilose-pubescent; bracts caducous in fruit, dark green or suffused with brown or purple, glossy, pilose-pubescent or sparsely so and pilose-ciliate, elliptic, 1–2≈0.5–1.3 cm, acute to subacute and mucronate; bracteoles linear to narrowly triangular, 3–5 mm long, with similar indumentum. Calyx 6–8(–9) mm long of which the basal tube 0.5–1 mm, puberulous and pilose-ciliate; lobes linear, cuspidate, 5–7(–8) mm long, dorsal up to 1 mm longer than the rest. Corolla pure white, finely puberulous and with scattered stalked capitate glands; cylindric tube 1.1–1.9 cm long; throat 1–2 mm long; lobes obovate, 4–6≈2–3.5 mm, truncate to retuse and irregularly toothed apically. Filaments 1–2.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers ± 1 mm long, connective and back of thecae with dense subsessile glands. Capsule 6–8 mm long; stipe ± 3 mm long. Seed ± 2.5 mm in diameter. Fig. 43, p. 274.