Shrubs, sometimes small trees, to ca 2 m, the branches ? lanate with branched hairs. Leaves ovate-elliptic, acute, finely serrate, the bases rounded to obtuse, to 8 cm long and 4 cm wide, pubescent on both surfaces, the hairs generally simple and uniseriate above, branched and extremely dense beneath; petioles ca 1-3 cm long, densely pubescent. Inflorescences ? capitulate, axillary, loosely-flowered, ca 0.5-1 cm diam, the peduncles ca 0.5-1 cm long, the capitula sometimes arranged in a cymose pattern, the bracts linear, masked by the dense pubescence. Flowers subsessile; calyx campanulate, ca 2.5-3 mm long, naked within, densely pubescent without, obscurely 10-veined, the teeth spinulose, ca 2-3 mm long; corolla tube ca 4-5 mm long, lavender, the lower lip ca 1.5 mm long, both lips pubescent; stamens exserted, the filaments pubescent, the anthers ca 0.4 mm long; style long exserted, ca 4-5 mm long, the lobes rounded, small and equal. Nutlets unknown.
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