Stachys obtusifolia Macowan

Perennial several-stemmed or bushy herb, 0.2-0.3 m tall; stems erect often from a shortly creeping or decumbent base, sparingly branched, with long slender spreading hairs and shorter gland-tipped hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate below, subsessile above; blade drying brownish, broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, 17-35 x 8-20 mm, upper surface fairly densely appressed pilose-villous with long slender multicellular hairs, not or scarcely bulbous-based, under-surface reticulate and villous on the nerves, not conspicuously gland-dotted, apex rounded, base cordate to subcordate, margin crenate, slightly thickened. Inflorescence fairly compact; verticils 4-6-flowered; bracts ovate, leaf-like, becoming smaller and subequal to the calyx upwards, densely villous and often glandular. Calyx densely pilose and often glandular, 6-7 mm long. Corolla colour unknown; tube 6-7 mm long; upper lip ascending, 3-4 mm long; lower lip deflexed, 6-7 mm long.