Acrotome pallescens Benth.

Shrublet 0.45-0.5 m tall, usually freely branched at the base from a perennial woody rootstock; stems slender, erect to spreading, softly woody below, minutely glandular-puberulous. Leaves very shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 10-25 x 4-10 mm, subglabrous to puberulous or minutely hispidulous, apex subacute, base cuneate, margin entire or with a few small teeth near the apex. Inflorescence of 2-6 spaced verticils; verticils up to 12-flowered, usually fewer; bracteoles few, linear-filiform, minutely hispidulous, somewhat spine-tipped, 3-5 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Calyx puberulous to hispidulous, widest near the slightly oblique mouth, 6-7 mm long at flowering, enlarging slightly at maturity, 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white; upper lip oblong, 2-3 mm long; lower lip 4-5 mm long. Nutlets dark brown, 1.5 mm long.