Shrub. Stem and branches tomentose or densely villose. Leaves thin-to thick-coriaceous, oblong-ovate or ovate, 4.5-7 by 2.5-3.5 cm, acute or obtuse, serrate or crenate, puberulent or densely villose above, tomentose or densely woolly beneath, base rounded, shortly attenuate, entire; petiole 0.5-1 cm, tomentose. Flowers small, 6-15 secundly arranged on the branches of axillary and terminal cymes; main peduncles 0.2-0.5 cm long, densely villose. Bracts and bracteoles subulate, minute. Flowers almost sessile. Calyx tubular, 3.5-4 mm long (in fruit campanulate, slightly inflated below, 5 mm), glandular and woolly; teeth lanceolate. Corolla 5.5-6 mm long, outside finely pubescent. Filaments ascending under the slightly arched upper lip, included. Style 2-branched at tip, shortly exposed. Nutlets obovoid-ellipsoid, subtriquetrous, 1.8 by 0.8 mm, coarsely reticulate, apex beset with soft hairs.
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