Shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves ovate to obovate, 10-15 (-25) mm long, 6-15 (-20) mm wide; basal leaves petiolate; cauline leaves overlapping, sessile, ±amplexicaul, white-hirsute, ±glabrescent; apex acute; midvein and 2 lateral veins raised. Inflorescence of many, interrupted spikes from upper axils, to 10-flowered; axis white, woolly; bracteoles ovate, 5-7 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, white, densely hirsute. Perianth white, silky-woolly; tube 3.5-4 mm long; upper lip linear to ovate, 2.75-3.25 mm long, 1-1.25 mm wide; inner surface maroon; apex recurved; lower lip united for 0.75-1 mm; lobes linear, 1.5-2 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; inner surface maroon, glabrous. Nut c. 3 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, golden-tomentose; circumference hairs 0.75-1 mm long, golden; central tuft of hairs c. 1.5 mm long, golden.
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