Stachys spathulata Burch. ex Benth.

Perennial rhizomatous herb or sub-shrublet, branching near the base; stems erect or ascending, often decumbent at the base, 80-250(-300) mm tall, whitish stellate-felted except on older stems. Leaves often crowded, sessile or subsessile; blade linear, linear-spathulate or linear-oblanceolate to rarely obovate-elliptic, often folded along the midrib, 15-50 x 2-12 mm, densely greyish white stellate-felted on both surfaces or more thinly and darker above, apex rounded, base attenuate to a somewhat clasping base, forming an inter-petiolar ridge, margin entire. Inflorescence of few to several 2(-4)-flowered verticils; bracts resembling the leaves below, becoming progressively shorter upwards. Calyx densely and shortly grey stellate-tomentose, 4-7 mm long. Corolla pink, mauve or rosy mauve; tube 4-5 mm long; upper lip ascending, 2.5-3 mm long; lower lip more or less horizontal, 4-5.5 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.