Erect, branched subshrub to 70 cm high, closely pale grey-tomentose. Leaves cauline, ovate to elliptic, mostly entire, thick, glabrous above when mature, tomentose below; lamina 24-64 mm long, 9-32 mm wide; petiole 7-16 mm long. Flowers in leafless racemes 13-29 cm long; bracteoles linear, 1-1.5 mm long or absent; pedicel 1-2 mm long. Sepals linear-oblong, to 1 mm long, hidden beneath hairs. Corolla 8-10 mm long; hairs outside ±appressed, mostly type i, pale grey; wings to 1.5 mm wide, very short or obsolete above auricle; calli absent. Ovary 2.5-3 mm long. Fruit not seen.