Herbs perennial. Stems ascending, 25-30 cm tall, base ± prostrate, sometimes with numerous, short scaly stolons; branches and stem dark purple, spreading villous. Stolon leaves subsessile, obovate to oblong, 3.5-5 × 2-3 mm, pilose, margin entire or obscurely crenate; stem leaves subsessile, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 0.8-2.5 cm × 4-7 mm, ± leathery, glabrous, rarely sparsely pilose, tinged purple-red abaxially sparsely impressed glandular, base attenuate, margin crenate, apex obtuse. Spikes solitary, terminal, 2-3.5 cm; bract pairs united into a cup, 6-8 mm wide, villous, glandular abaxially, densely overlapping, margin white ciliate, apex mucronate; teeth lanceolate, subequal, ca. 1 mm. Corolla rose-purple, ca. 9 mm, villous outside, sparsely glandular; tube recurved, funnelfrom, to 2 mm wide at throat; upper lip emarginate; lower lip slightly spreading, middle lobe longer, margin entire. Nutlets brown-black, oblong, ca. 1.1 mm. Fl. Sep-Nov, fr. Dec-Feb.
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A herb which keeps growing from year to year. The stems are 25-30 cm long. The base can have short scaly stolons or runners. The leaves on the stolons or runners are oblong and 3.5-5 mm long by 2-3 mm wide. The leaves on the stem are 0.8-2.5 cm long by 2-3 mm wide. They are leathery. The flower spike is at the tip and is 2-3.5 cm long.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in pine forests and hilly grasslands between 1,200-3,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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Pine forests, hilly grasslands; at elevations from 1,200-3,000 metres.
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