Erect herb to 50 cm tall, woody at base, yellowish to grey villous, glabrescent. Leaves mostly towards base, elliptic to oblanceolate, narrowing basally, dentate to lyrate; lamina mostly 6-20 cm long, 10-22 mm wide. Flowers in compact spikes to 12 cm long to 30 cm long; bracts lanceolate, 12-20 mm long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 8-15 mm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 8-10 mm long. Corolla 20-30 mm long, pubescent inside, with enations, ±auriculate; abaxial lobes 9-11 mm long; wings c. 2 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong. Ovules 20-25. Fruit cylindrical, 8-9 mm long; valves split ±to base. Seeds elliptic to orbicular, 1.5 mm long, brown, reticulate-foveate.
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