Dicrastylis costelloi

Description

Greyish hairy shrub to 90 cm high with erect, woody and branching stems covered in dense hairs. Leaves sessile, opposite or in whorls of 3; linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with recurved-revolute margins, to 3 cm long and 6 mm wide; greyish- hairy when young, the older glabrescent and rugose. Inflorescence terminal, spike-like with a few branches near the base of the spike; hairy and with whitish-grey, purplish-violet or purplish-grey flowers. Flowers sporadically.