Shrubs 0.8-2 m tall. Branchlets grayish minutely tomentose when young, glabrescent. Petiole terete, 5-10 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 2-6 X 1.5-3 cm, papery, golden glandular, abaxially densely gray circinate pilose, adaxially dark green and pilose, base subrounded and slightly oblique, margin subentire to serrate, apex acuminate to acute. Calyx ca. 4 mm, deeply 5-dentate below middle, teeth narrowly triangular, both surfaces pubescent and golden glandular. Corolla pinkish to purple, ca. 6 mm, tube subglabrous but densely villous in throat, 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed; upper lip ca. 4 mm, subrounded; lobes puberulent, outside glandular. Stamens slightly exserted; filaments glabrous but villous at base. Ovary obovate, glabrous, apically glandular. Fruit black, 3-5 X 2-3 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Sep.
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