Stachys flexuosa Skan

Perennial herb, branching at the base; stems slender, decumbent to ascending, sparingly branched, 0.15-0.25 m long, fairly densely hispid to villous-pilose with long spreading hairs and some short glandular hairs. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, 10-20 x 6-15 mm, somewhat appressed villous with some bulbous-based hairs above, hispid mainly on the nerves beneath, apex obtuse to rounded, base truncate to subcordate, margin crenate; petiole 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence fairly dense, of few to several 2-6-flowered verticils; rhachis densely hispid with some glands; bracts leaf-like below, becoming smaller and subequal to the calyx above. Calyx hispid and with some glands, 7-8 mm long. Corolla purple; tube 6 mm long; upper lip erect, 4 mm long; lower lip deflexed, 8 mm long.