Perennial succulent herb forming small mats; stems several, branched, about 0.25 m tall, densely velvety tomentulose. Leaves crowded, shortly petiolate; blade succulent, drying thick-textured, broadly ovate to subrotund or broadly obovate, appressed grey velvety, under-surface purple tinged, copiously red gland-dotted, apex obtuse to rounded, base obtuse to shortly cuneate, margin obscurely crenate to subentire; petiole 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence simple or occasionally branched near the base, racemes 40-100 mm long; flowers in sessile 1-2(rarely 3)-flowered cymes forming 2-4-flowered verticils 4-8 mm apart. Calyx 5-6 mm long at fruiting stage, puberulous and freely red gland-dotted. Corolla white with a few blue-mauve marks, 6-9 mm long; tube narrowing about the middle; upper lip 3-4 mm long; lower lip slightly concave, 3 mm long. Stamens free, up to 1.5 mm long.
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