Kandikandilaan (Tag.)

A small, perennial, shrub. Height: Reaching up to 2 meters in height. Leaves: Leaves simple, not lobed or divided, opposite, stalked, elliptic or ovate, more than 2 cm long/wide, usually airy on both sides, margin coarsely dentate, apex acute or obtuse, base obtuse our rounded, pinnately veined. Flowers: Salverform, blue to purple flowers have a white throat and 5 lobes (1.3 cm wide). They are arranged on a 15 - 40 cm long terminal spike inflorescence (an inflorescence at the stem tip which has stalkless flowers held along one main axis). Only about 2 - 3 flowers are open at a time on the spike, lasting for one day and replaced by a new set the next day. Fruits: Dry, indehiscent fruit is known as a nutlet, a one-seeded small nutlike fruit.