Erect, branched subshrub to 50 cm tall, greyish to brownish tomentose. Leaves cauline, ovate to elliptic, entire or dentate, tomentose on both surfaces; lamina 17-65 mm long, 12-28 mm wide; petiole to 11 mm long. Flowers in leafless racemes to 9 cm long; bracteoles 3 or 4 together, linear, 5-8 mm long; pedicel 1-1.5 mm long. Sepals linear, 5-7 mm long, with a tuft of long silky hairs. Corolla 8-10 mm long; hairs outside type ii, greyish to brownish; wings c. 0.5 mm wide, obsolete above auricle; calli obsolete. Ovary 2-3 mm long. Fruit not seen.