Herbs erect or ascending. Stems robust, ca. 40 cm, branched, spreading villous, densely so at apex. Petiole ca. 1.5 cm or less; leaf blade ovate, 7.5-13 × 4.5-7 cm, densely tomentose-villous, base abruptly attenuate, margin crenate, ± succulent, apex obtuse to acute. Racemes to 11 cm, verticillasters 6-flowered; bracts sessile, broadly ovate, membranous, margin ciliate, apex caudate-acute, sparsely glandular and puberulent outside, deciduous in flower. Calyx campanulate, ca. 6 mm, densely villous, throat closed by villous hairs in fruit; teeth subulate-lanceolate, posterior tooth cordate, apex acute, lateral teeth shorter. Corolla purple-blue, 1.2-1.5 cm, sparsely glandular outside, recurved, throat dilated, upper lip unequally 4-lobed; lower lip oblong, concave. Stamens nearly exserted or included; filaments connate forming a sheath for ca. 1/2 its length. Nutlets globose, flattened. Fl. Sep.
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A herb. It can be erect or curve up at the tips. The stems are robust. They are about 40 cm high. They are branched. The leaf stalk is about 1.5 cm long. The leaf blade is oval and 7.5-13 cm long by 4.5-7 cm wide. They can be densely covered with a fine hair layer. The edges can be irregular. The flowering stalks are 11 cm long with 6 flowers in a ring. The flowers are purple-blue. The nutlets are round but flattened.
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