Shrubs to 60 cm tall, prostrate. Stems woody, flexuous, grayish tomentose, soon glabrescent. Petiole 3-8 cm, villous; leaf blade ovate to lanceolate, 1.5-4 × 1-2 cm, both surfaces sparsely pilose, secondary veins ca. 4 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded to acute. Spikes axillary, ca. 1 cm, 1-3-flowered; peduncle ca. 3 mm, grayish pubescent; bracts linear, 2-3 mm, abaxially grayish pubescent; bracteoles similar to bracts. Calyx ca. 7 mm, outside pubescent, 5-lobed to base; lobes linear. Corolla white tinged with red, ca. 1.3 cm, outside pubescent; lower lip very short, 3-lobed, lobes circular; upper lip shorter, apex emarginate. Staminal filaments ca. 4 mm, basal portion whitish villous; anther thecae superposed, lower one spurred at base. Ovary glabrous; style ca. 8 mm, white villous. Capsule ca. 7 mm, glabrous. Seeds ovate in outline, ca. 1 × 1 mm. Fl. Sep.
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