Perennial, dwarf shrub or herb, 0.1-0.6 m high. Stems with scattered hairs on faces and ring of eglandular hairs at nodes. Leaves 10-50 x 3-38 mm, lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, thinly textured, almost hairless except for sparse, stiff hairs along margins and sometimes along midrib. Bracts 4-28 x 1-7 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic or leaf-like, broadly ovate or elliptic. Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx bilabiate, 4.5-9.0 mm long, lobes linear triangular to narrowly triangular or triangular, variously hairy. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit 10-18 x 4-6 mm, obtrullate to narrowly clavate or clavate, glabrous. Seeds pale buff-olive-coloured, both surfaces glabrous, shiny.
Perennial herb, up to 500 mm high. Stems decumbent to erect. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, up to 40 x 30 mm, base truncate or cordate, apex acute, margins entire, thinly hairy; petioles up to 10 mm long. Flowers: calyx obscurely 2-lipped, 2 nearly free to base, 3 connate for < 1/2 their length; corolla pale mauve or white; May-Feb. Fruit 10-13 mm long.
Perennial decumbent to erect herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves ovate, base truncate or cordate, thinly hairy. Calyx obscurely 2-lipped, 2 nearly free to base, 3 connate for less than half their length. Flowers pale mauve or white.
A herb. It has a woody rootstock and twiggy stems. It has grey hairs. The leaves are broadly oval and can be heart shaped at the base. They are 1.5 cm across. They are mauve.