Stachys scabrida Skan

Perennial, decumbent to prostrate herb; stems about 0.2-0.4 m long, sparingly branched, subglabrous to scabrid with strong retrorse-scabrid hairs or longer multicellular retrorse hairs. Leaves petiolate, drying dark brown; blade firm to coriaceous, ovate to ovate-deltoid or deltoid, 12-30 x 8-20 mm, eglandular, subglabrous to sparingly hispid, the upper surface usually with scattered short to longish bulbous-based hairs, apex usually acute, base deeply cordate with a wide sinus and distant rounded auricles, margin regularly crenate to crenate-dentate, often somewhat thickened; petiole 5-18 mm long. Inflorescence usually slender, lax below, occasionally somewhat condensed, of 2-6 verticils; verticils 2-6-flowered; rhachis glabrous to retrorse-scabrid; bracts differentiated towards the apex. Calyx subglabrous to sparingly hispid, 6-8 mm long. Corolla white, sometimes with mauve spots on the lower lip; tube 6-8 mm long, slightly arcuate; upper lip ascending, 5-6 mm long; lower lip horizontal, 6-9 mm long.