Bushy to shrub of 1-3 m high. Branches are pubescent or sometime glabrous without thorns. Opposite leaves arranged in verticils of 3-4 leaves. The petioles are pubescent to tomentose, wwith a brown yellowish hairs. The laminae is elliptic to obval. inflorescence  is a loose cymes of few flowers resembled   in a terminal panicle.  The flours are mauve  or blue.

In Rwanda,innorthernregion.Traditionalhealersuse Clerodendron myricoides to treat infant intestinal worms. According to Kayiranga Moussa, a tradipractician in Bugesera, it is used to treat infections. In Ethiopia, one of the traditional herbs used in different parts is Clerodendron myricoides. Roots and leaves  are also used to treat gonorrhea, rabies, measles, glandular TB, colic, eye disease, malaria, swelling s  wound dressings, asthma and as aphrodisiac. It is also a vermufuge. In Uganda and neighboring countries, The pain in the chest is treated by cooked roots in a bnr broth and driken. To stop gum bleeding and treat colds  they drunk the roots extract.  The roots are also pounded in water, and the extract is given to the cattle for the treatment of the east coast fever, or drunk to relieve indigestion in human. The sam ction is used to cure sore throat., tonsillitis, malaria, aand rheumatism. A decoction of roots  is also taken as a purgative, as an emetic and for treating gonorrhea.