Basal parts and main stem not known, but obviously a much branches stout herb. Branches c. 30 cm long, covered especially in their lower parts densely by retrorse or distally by spreading, in dried state brownish hairs. Leaves darker green on upper, paler on lower side, with apressed antrorse hairs on the upper, less closely apressed, irregularly directed, along the nerves denser hairs on the lower side, middle leaves lanceolate, rounded-truncate at base, widest below middle, 10-11 by 2.8-3 cm, acute, the upper leaves 4-7 by 1-2 cm. Cymes first scorpioid-contracted, later elongate, loose, straight, composed of about 10 flowers, with horizontally spreading, brownish hairs; pedicels 1.5-3 mm in flower, 12-15 mm long in fruit, more or less bent downwards. Calyx 3-3.5 mm long in flower, 6-6.5 mm later on, lobes coherent only at the very base, acute, first 1.5, later 1.8-2 mm wide, covered by antrorse, later on more patent hairs. Corolla funnel-to salver-shaped, 4.5-5 mm long, lavender, tube 2 mm long, distinctly shorter than limb, lobes free beyond the middle of the limb, broadly rounded, c. 3.5 mm long and wide, orbicular-obovate to ovate-oblong, spreading; fornices very short and broad, nearly semilunate, c. 0.8 mm wide. Stamens: filaments very short but distinct, attached to middle of tube, anthers slightly incurved at apex, scarcely reaching base of fornices. Pistil: style 2.5-3 mm long, shorter than the nutlets but surpassing them, stigma very small, subcapitate. Nutlets slightly immature only known, ovate in outline, 3-3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, with few, very short spines or glochids on the dorsal disc, with several concentric rows of basally widening and partly confluent glochids ventrally and along margin, attached to the short gynobase by the small, apical areola.
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