Spreading, perennial subshrub to 80 cm tall, sometimes viscid when young, with antrorse hairs or glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, entire or dentate; lamina 3.5-9 cm long, 1-6 mm wide. Flowers in loose terminal spikes, thyrses or pedunculate axillary cymes to 10 cm long; bracts linear, 5-15 mm long; bracteoles lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm long, ±equalling sepals. Sepals united in a tube, undulate, c. 1 mm long. Corolla c. 12 mm long, glabrous-viscid or hairy outside, bearded inside, blue or white; barbulae papillate apically; wings c. 1 mm wide. Ovary 2-locular; indusium 1.5 mm wide, shortly hairy on both surfaces. Fruit globular, to 4 mm wide, grooved, otherwise smooth, glabrous or hairy.
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