Herb, sometimes suffrutescent, 3 m tall; stems terete in age, to subquadran-gular when young, subtomentose, the hairs ca. 1 mm long. Leaves ovate to ovate elliptic, 7-15 cm long, 5-9 cm wide, apically acuminate, basally subcordate to rounded or obtuse, both the surfaces pilose, the hairs ca. 1 mm long, the cystoliths minute, the margins crenulate to undulate; petioles to 7 cm long, pilose. Inflo-rescences in terminal and axillary thyrses to 30 cm long, the rachises and the branches pilose; bracts oblong to narrowly lanceolate, to 7 mm long, 2 mm wide, acute to acuminate, pilose; pedicels to 2 cm long, flattened, puberulous and with occasional glandular hairs ca. 1 mm long. Flowers with the calyx 5-merous, the segments linear, to 7 mm long in flower and to 12 mm long in fruit, 1 mm wide, puberulous and with occasional glandular hairs; corolla orange, to 2.6 cm long, the tube curved outward, sparingly glandular pilose, 2 mm broad basally, contract-ing just above the ovary and then expanding abruptly to 5 mm just above the calyx lobes, the upper lip erect, elliptic, to 5 mm long, 2 mm wide, apically
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bidentate, the lower lip ca. 1.5 mm long, 3-lobed, the lobes ca. 1 mm long, rounded; stamens exserted to ca. 1 cm beyond the tip of the upper lip. Capsules clavate, to 16 mm long, 3 mm wide, 3 mm thick, glabrous; seeds 4, oblong, basally oblique, 2 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, flattened, coarsely roughened.
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