Prostrate to straggly shrub to c. 50 cm tall. Leaves clustered at base of stem and scattered above; petiole 5 mm to more than 60 mm long; lamina filiform to oblanceolate or ovate, 1.4-14.8 cm long, 2-19 mm wide, glabrous or puberulous; veins prominent; apex mucronate. Inflorescence paniculate, with dense, terminal heads, to 18-flowered; peduncle 1-18 cm long, glabrous or puberulous; bracteoles 2.75-5 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, blue, variably hairy, with a cuspidate apex. Perianth blue to pink; tube 1.2-3.1 mm long, glabrous to sparsely velutinous; upper lip ovate, 4-5.2 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous, with an acute, recurved apex; lower lip united for 1.75-3 mm; lobes narrowly oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide, acute. Nut 2-2.3 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, tan, cream-velutinous; circumference hairs 0.75-1 mm long, cream to orange; central tuft of hairs 0.75-1.5 mm long, cream.
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