Compilation
Ocimum hadiense

Shrublet or subshrub, 0.1–1.2 m tall. Leaves petiolate, rather fleshy; blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, up to 30–60 × 30–55 mm, lanate or densely pubescent with long greyish hairs, more densely so below, apex rounded, base broadly cuneate or truncate, very shortly attenuate near the petiole, margin deeply crenate. Inflorescences rather lax; bracts usually early deciduous; cymes 3–9-flowered, subsessile; pedicels spreading, 3–5 mm long in the fruiting stage, with short eglandular hairs and few to many often purplish sessile to shortly stalked glands. Fruiting calyx strongly upcurved, 3.5–5 mm long, often with purplish sessile glands; upper lobe broadly ovate, concave, not decurrent (or superficially decurrent as the calyx-wall is double-folded at the margins); lower lobes c. 1.5 mm long, slightly longer than the lateral lobes. Corolla c. 6–9 mm long, blue; tube only slightly curved; upper lip with the suborbicular midlobes folded backwards and the lateral lobes folded forwards; lower lip 3–4 mm long. Stamens free, shorter than or up to as long as the lower lip of the corolla. Nutlets c. 0.8–1 × 0.9–1.1 mm, glossy, brown, producing mucilage when wet.