Complex sentence: Growing to tall by wide, it is a sprawling evergreen shrub with longitudinally veined, dark greenhairy leaves, and brilliant purple flowers up to in diameter, with black stamens, throughout summer and autumn.
Split into simpler sentences: Growing to tall by wide, it is a sprawling evergreen shrub with longitudinally veined, dark green hairy leaves. Clusters of brilliant purple flowers up to in diameter, with black stamens, are borne throughout summer and autumn.