Spindly shrub to 1.5 m tall. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 1.1-6.3 cm long, 1-10 mm wide, ascending, puberulous or glabrescent at maturity; apex deltoid; midvein and 2 lateral veins prominently raised. Inflorescence a loose, spicate panicle, exceeding leaves; peduncle 5.5-18 cm long, tomentose; bracteoles ovate, 2-2.6 mm long, 1.2-1.6 mm wide, velutinous at base and lower sides. Perianth white; tube 2.5-3.5 mm long, villous-woolly; upper lip 1.5-2.3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, woolly, puberulous in upper half; lower lip united for 0.6-1.2 mm; lobes oblong, 0.8-1 mm long, 0.2-0.4 mm wide, tomentose to velutinous, with an acute apex. Nut 2.2-2.7 mm long, 2.2-2.4 mm wide, orange-brown-tomentose; circumference hairs c. 1.6 mm long, whitish pink; central tuft c. 2 mm long, red.
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