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Flowering spikes up to 1 × 0.7 cm, subspherical, elongating slightly in fruit with drupes spaced along the axis; lower bracts of flowering spikes green, membranous, 4.5–7 × 2.5–4 mm, broadly elliptical or oblong-elliptical, shortly acuminate, sometimes leaf-like with prominent nerves and 1–2 teeth toward the apex, appressed pilose on both surfaces but more densely so and with sessile glands on the outer surface; upper bracts successively smaller; spike-axes up to 13 mm long, with scattered scars.
Stems with a slightly fissured pale bark, glabrous; branchlets slender, brownish, with internodes 0.3–2.5(4) cm long and leaf scars somewhat raised, ± softly strigose and more densely so toward the apices, the indumentum of whitish ± tubercle-based curved-appressed antrorse hairs, with sessile glands intermixed.
Corollas exceeding the bracts, usually mauve, pink, lavender or pale violet, sometimes nearly white; tube 5–7.5 mm long, ± swollen about the middle, densely shortly puberulous;lower lip 4.5–5 mm broad, 3-lobed, the lobes rounded, the median the largest; upper-lip 2.75–3.25 mm broad.
Peduncles solitary in leaf axils, ascending-erect to ± spreading, 10–28 mm long and filiform at anthesis, shorter than to longer than the subtending leaf, increasing to 35(45) mm long in fruit.
Drupes 2–3 × 3–3.75 mm, broader than long, subrhombic in outline.
A much branched straggling shrub 0.6–1.6 m tall.
Anthers 0.3–0.5 mm long, ovate.
Calyx thinly membranous.