Herbs perennial, to 30 cm tall. Stems many branched at middle, densely red-brown pubescent. Leaves ± sessile, ovate-oblong, 2--4 X 1--1.5 cm, fleshy, long pubescent along midvein, entire or incised-serrulate, apex obtuse. Cymes corymbose; bracts sessile, triangular, shorter than flowers, pubescent. Calyx to 1.5 cm, fleshy, ciliate, nearly 1/2 cleft anteriorly; lobes 2, ca. 1/3 as long as tube or less, broadly ovate to rounded, double serrulate. Corolla rose, 4--4.5 cm, glabrous; tube ca. 2 cm; galea falcate, more than 2 cm; beak short; lower lip slightly shorter than galea, glabrous. Filaments sparsely pubescent. Fl. Oct, fr. Nov.
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