Perennial shrub or herb, 0.5-4.0 m high. Leaves ovate, glabrous, soft, apex acuminate, base attenuate, secondary veins 4 or 5, looping towards margins. Inflorescence terminal; flowers loose. Bracts linear, oblong, spathulate. Flowering time Jan.-May.
Herb, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves elliptic, acuminate. Bracteoles and calyx thinly hispid with white nonglandular hairs. Bracts linear-oblong. Corolla up to 40 mm long, tube slender. Flowers mauve.