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Corolla 5-tailed in bud; dark green, glabrous to densely appressed bristly-pubescent save at base of tube; tube 6–7 mm long, hairy at the throat and with a ring of deflexed bristly hairs inside; lobes greenish-white inside 8 × 1.5 mm including the 2–3 mm long subulate appendage.
Dwarf subshrub or suffrutex from a creeping woody rhizome; stems several short 5–15 cm* tall, erect thinly woody and glabrous to sparsely or densely appressed setulose with white or yellowish** hairs.
Flowers solitary or in 2-flowered cymes; common peduncle suppressed, pedicels or peduncles of solitary flowers 1–6 mm long; bracts 2 mm long, lanceolate.
Calyx glabrous to densely covered with yellowish appressed bristly hairs; tube campanulate 1.5 mm long; lobes 2–3.5 mm long, lanceolate.
Fruit subglobose, c. 12 mm in diameter, mostly with 3 pyrenes and 3-lobed when dry, crowned by calyx limb.
The pollen presenter 1.2 mm long, cylindrical, 5-lobed at apex.
Style 7–9 mm long.
Ovary 5-locular.
