Climbing or scrambling, branches short-tomen-tose. Leaves ovate, blunt or acute, base shortly narrowed, glabrous above, short glaucous-tomen-tose beneath, nerves and reticulations impressed above, 3-7½ by 1½-5½ cm. Petiole tomentose, ½-1½ cm. Flowers in terminal-congested, many-flowered leafy panicles exceeding the leaves, stalks and flowering parts with subsessile, red, capitate-glandular hairs interspersed in the tomentum. Bracts narrow-lanceolate, 2 mm, tomentose. Bracteoles +-orbicular, ± 1 mm, shorter than the ovary, tomentose. Calyx-tube ellipsoid, glabrous except near the apex, lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube, 1½-2 mm. Corolla pale yellow turning orange with age, tube 2-2½ cm, slender, subangular, tomentose, lips ± 1¼-1¾ cm, upper lip incised to 1¼-1/5. Stamens far exsert, filaments sparsely hairy towards the base, anthers 3 mm. Style far exsert, glabrous or occasionally with a few negligible, spreading hairs.
Streamborders, forest borders, open rocky places, 850-1400 m, fl. Sept.-Febr.
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