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Perennial herb or low shrub, up to 0.6 m high; strongly aromatic. Stems 1-several, erect or spreading. Leaves petiolate; narrowly ovate to elliptic, 25-65 x 4-20 mm, base cuneate, apex acute, margins crenate-serrulate in upper part, entire in lower part, veins prominent below, surfaces glandular and strigose. Flowers: in dense, many-flowered spikes; bracts broadly ovate, up to 12 x 6 mm, apex shortly acuminate, exceeding flowers; calyx distinctly 2-lobed, hispidulous; corolla with tube ± 4 mm long, white or cream-coloured; Aug.-Apr.
Bracts appressed imbricate, 4–10 × 3–6 mm, longer than the flowers, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, sparsely shortly pubescent with appressed white hairs outside, shortly ciliate at the margin, glandular outside, greenish-yellow, the lowermost not leaf-like.
Stems 1–several, 30–100 cm tall, erect or spreading, simple or shortly branched above, somewhat 4-angular, striate, stems and branches leafy with inflorescences in upper axils, ± scabrid mainly along the angles with short strigose antrorse setae.
Spikes densely many-flowered, up to 1.2 cm long and ovoid in flower, increasing to 2.6 × 1.2 cm and cylindric-ovoid in fruit; peduncles solitary in the upper leaf axils, ascending, up to 5.3 cm long, subequalling the subtending leaf.
Shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Calyx distinctly 2-lobed. Bracts longer than 4 mm and broader than 3 mm, exceeding flowers. Flowers white or cream.
Corolla cream to pale yellow; tube c. 4 mm long, pubescent and glandular outside, with pubescent throat; limb 2-lipped.
A small shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. It has many stems from ground level. There are large bracts below the flowers.
Perennial herb, undershrub or low shrub, from a woody rootstock, leaves strongly aromatic when crushed.
Calyx distinctly 2-lobed, 1/3–1/2 as long as the corolla, uniformly hispidulous.
Mericarps 2.25 × 1.75 mm, semiglobose, flat on the commissural face.
