Plectranthus kapatensis (R. E. Fr.) J. K. Morton

kapatensis: of the Kapata Peninsula, Bangweulu in Zambia, where the type specimen was collected.

Erect perennial, up to 1 m high, growing from a small tuber. Leaves in whorls of three, sessile, elliptic, 2.5-6.5 cm long, sparsely pubescent and with scattered gland dots; margin toothed. Leafy stems usually with axillary whorls of bulbils, 7-15 mm long, covered in short hairs and longer, swollen-based hooked hairs. Plants leafless when flowering. Inflorescences in opposite branches or sometimes in threes; flowers in 1-6-flowered verticels set 1-2 cm apart. Corolla purple or pale blue, 14-20 mm long.

Angola, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.