Herbs to 27 cm tall. Stems hispid. Petiole 2.5-3.5 cm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, 5-8.5 × 1.5-3.5 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded to acute. Spikes 3-5 cm, with 4-6 nodes; rachis usually zigzag, winged for ca. 2 mm below nodes; bracts ovate to elliptic, 1.2-6 × 0.8-3 cm, reduced in size apically on rachis, glabrous except for ciliate margin, base rounded, apex acute; bracteoles lanceolate, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, glabrous except for ciliate margin, margin serrate. Calyx ca. 7 mm, glabrous; lobes linear-triangular, ca. 6 × 1.5 mm, equal. Corolla pink, ca. 1 cm, glabrous; tube basally cylindric and ca. 2 mm wide for ca. 5 mm; lobes oblong, ca. 2 × 2 mm, equal, apex emarginate. Staminal filaments ca. 1 mm; anther thecae ca. 1 mm. Ovary ca. 2 mm; style ca. 7 mm. Capsule ca. 15 × 2.7 mm, glabrous. Seeds broadly ovate to subcircular in outline, ca. 1.3 × 1.3 mm, covered with dense long white appressed trichomes. Fl. Aug-Oct, fr. Nov-Jan.
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