Perennial soft viscid dwarf shrublet 0.15-0.25 m tall, woody below and freely branched; stems ascending, glandular-hispidulous. Leaves subsessile, often coriaceous; blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 12-40 x 2-5 mm, echinulate with numerous sunken glands, apex obtuse, base attentuate, margin remotely and obscurely toothed, often revolute. Racemes lax, 50-70 mm long, of several spaced verticils; verticils 2-flowered; bracts 1.5-5 mm long. Calyx aculeate, strongly veined, villous in the throat, enlarging to 3.5 mm long at maturity; tube campanulate; lateral teeth subulate, shorter than the lower pair. Corolla whitish to mauve or pink, 8-9 mm long; tube cylindric, 6-7 mm long; lobes 2 mm long.
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