Stachys aurea Benth.

Freely branched shrub 0.3-1 m tall; branches spreading to ascending, densely yellowish white stellate-tomentulose. Leaves small, subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade green, thin-textured, obovate or oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10-20 x 2-5 mm, sparingly to freely stellate-hispid on both surfaces or subglabrous above, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire or few-toothed near the apex. Inflorescence produced at the ends of slender branches, of few to several 4-6-flowered verticils; bracts resembling the leaves, stellate-hispid. Calyx densely yellowish woolly-tomentose, 6-9 mm long. Corolla yellow; tube 5-6 mm long; upper lip ascending, 2-3 mm long; lower lip deflexed, 5-6 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.