Compilation
Streptocarpus bequaertii

Perennial caulescent herb, straggling or subscandent, to 150(–200) cm tall. Stems somewhat succulent, weak, sometimes constricted at the nodes in dried material, branching, pubescent when young, glabrescent except for the pilose nodes, stomata often visible as purple streaks. Leaves opposite, pairs somewhat unequal or subequal; blade variable, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 3.5–14 mm long, 2–6 cm wide, base shallowly cordate to rounded or obtuse, often highly asymmetric, becoming cordate on one side and obtuse on the other, margin entire, apex acuminate or more rarely acute, surfaces pilose; lateral nerves 8–15 pairs; petiole 1–4.5(–6) cm long, pilose. Inflorescences axillary to the upper leaves, solitary, 4–22-flowered; peduncles 5–16 cm long, eglandular-pilose at the base, with progressively more glandular hairs towards the apex; pedicels 6–20 mm long, glandular-pilose, often densely so, the hair-walls pigmented purple, with shorter eglandular hairs and subsessile glands; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm long, pilose, often early caducous. Calyx lobes broadly lanceolate, 2.5–4.5 mm long, blunt-tipped, pilose with mainly eglandular hairs except towards the base where hairs mainly glandular, with scattered subsessile glands. Corolla blue-purple to purple, often with a paler or whitish mouth, 16–30 mm long, glandular-pilose outside particularly on the tube; tube cylindric, 7–13 mm long, 2.5–3(–4) mm deep, slightly swollen above the base, sometimes slightly ventricose on the floor of the upper half, papillose on the floor within; limb bilabiate, oblique; upper lip of two erect, rounded lobes, 3–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, united to midway; lower lip protruding, 12–20 mm long, lateral lobes rounded to asymmetric, 5–8(–10) mm long, 5.5–13.5(–15.5) mm wide, median lobe rounded or with a truncate to shallowly emarginate apex, 5–10.5 mm long, 7–17 mm wide, palate upcurved and two-ridged with a central groove, the mouth strongly vertically compressed, papillose. Stamens arising from the upper third of the corolla tube; filaments converging, 3–4 mm long, glabrous or with scattered short hairs; anther thecae divaricate, 0.8 mm wide; staminodes minute. Ovary cylindric, 4–6 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent with scattered subsessile glands; style 3–4 mm long, becoming glabrous towards the apex; stigma capitate, 0.6–1 mm wide, papillose. Capsule 35–60 mm long, 1.5–2 mm diameter, sparsely pubescent. Seeds 0.4–0.6 mm long, minutely verruculose with weak longitudinal ridges. Fig. 3, p. 21.