Chloanthes coccinea is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae.

Chloanthes coccinea is a small, spreading, much branched shrub with stems in cross section more or less circular.

The leaves are arranged opposite, narrowly linear, almost needle-shaped due to rolled margins, 0.8–3 cm (0.31–1.18 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide, stiff, leathery, distinctly blistered on upper surface, densely woolly on the underside.

The scarlet, red or deep pink corolla 17–27 mm (0.67–1.06 in) long, with branched hairs in the throat, four stamens, style 13–20 mm (0.51–0.79 in) long, glandular with soft hairs on the outside, mostly smooth on the inside.

[2][3] Chloanthes coccinea was first formally described in 1845 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Plantae Preissianae.