Spreading shrub to 1.2 m tall, with close, greyish or pale brownish tomentum. Leaves cauline, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, usually dentate, glabrescent above, hairy below; lamina 15-75 mm long, 4-13 mm wide; petiole 3-7 mm long. Flowers in spikes or thyrses 12-30 cm long; bracteoles 0.5-1 mm long; pedicel to 1.5 mm long. Sepals c. 0.5 mm long, hidden beneath hairs. Corolla 4-5 mm long; hairs outside much-branched, type i, white to yellowish; wings c. 0.5 mm wide, obsolete above auricle, with an appendage below auricle; calli obsolete. Ovary 1.7-2.2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, c. 3 mm long, ribbed.
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