Perennial herb; stems procumbent, branched, up to 0.5 m long, sparsely to densely stellate-hispid. Leaves petiolate; blade fairly thick-textured, broadly ovate-deltoid, 10-22 x 10-20 mm, reticulate, densely grey stellate-hispid on both surfaces, apex obtuse to rounded, base deeply cordate, margin regularly crenate; petiole 3-7 mm long. Inflorescence lax below, dense above; verticils usually 2-flowered, occasionally 4-6-flowered; bracts leaf-like below becoming rapidly smaller and eventually elliptic and shorter than the calyx above. Calyx densely and shortly stellate-villous, 7-9 mm long. Corolla white to rosy with a purplish blotch in the throat; tube 7-8 mm long; upper lip ascending, 3 mm long and equally broad; lower lip horizontal, 6-7 mm long.
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