Herbs, perennial, coarse, to 1.5 m, appressed-pubescent on the branches. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly elliptical (in Pan'ama), acute, serrate, the bases attenuate, to 18 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, glabrous or densely soft-pubescent above, glabrous or pubescent on the veins beneath, the midrib and secondary veins pronounced; sessile to petioles ca 0.5 cm long. Inflorescences capitula, dense, axillary, ? hemispherical, the peduncles ca 1-4 cm long, the bracts lan-ceolate or awl-shaped, ca 8-9 mm long, densely pubescent. Flowers sessile, tufts of hairs at the bases; calyx tubular-campanulate, ca 3-4 mm long at maturity, pilose-annulate within above the nutlets, the teeth acicular to setaceous, ca 3-4 mm long; corolla tube ca 4.5-5 mm long, white and rose, the lower lip ca 1.5-1.8 mm long, the lips and tube lightly pubescent; stamens exserted, the filaments sparsely pubescent near the base, the anthers ca 0.4 mm long; gynobase some-what elongated, becoming lobed, the style minutely bifid near the tip. Nutlets 4, oblong-flattened, the lobes of the gynobase adhering, ca 1.5-1.6 mm long, brown.
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