Stachys kuntzei Gürke

Perennial herb, decumbent or ascending, 0.45-1 m tall; stems stout, semi-succulent, densely pilose with long spreading hairs and shorter gland-tipped hairs. Leaves sessile above, petiolate below; blade fairly thick-textured, broadly ovate, 35-70 x 25-50 mm, densely appressed-tomentose on both surfaces, often with gland-tipped hairs beneath, apex obtuse to rounded, base cordate, margin finely and regularly crenate; petiole up to 30 mm long. Inflorescence simple or branched near the base, tapering and denser towards the apex, of many fairly closely spaced 6-flowered verticils; rhachis densely glandular-pubescent; bracts broadly ovate, broad-based, the lower pair somewhat leaf-like, the upper much reduced. Calyx densely glandular-pubescent, 6-7 mm long. Corolla white or tinged with mauve; tube 7-9 mm long; upper lip horizontal, 3-4 mm long; lower lip deflexed 4-5 mm long.