Sparingly branched shrub to 70 cm tall. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 5-10 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, ascending, sericeous to velutinous or glabrous, but white-hirsute at base; apex conical; midvein prominent. Inflorescence a terminal to subterminal panicle; peduncle 5-10 cm long, sericeous to tomentose; bracteoles 2-2.5 mm long, 3.5-3.75 mm wide, ovate to cordate, sericeous, with ciliate margins. Perianth white, velutinous to sericeous; tube 6-7 mm long, white-sericeous; upper lip deltoid, 2.75-3 mm long, 2-2.25 mm wide, with an undulate margin and an acute apex; lower lip united for 1.25-1.5 mm; lobes oblong to broadly oblong, 2.5-2.75 mm long, 0.75-1 mm wide with an acute apex. Nut 1.75-2.25 mm long, c. 3 mm wide, white-to cream-velutinous; circumference hairs 3-4 mm long, golden; central tuft absent.
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