Plants perennial. Leaves 1 to 3, prostrate, lamina 50-100 x 30-70 mm, base broadly cuneate, densely pilose, sericeous. Inflorescence cymose 2-to 10-flowered, lower flowers often subopposite; peduncle 50-140 mm long, densely glandular pilose; pedicels 10-14 mm long, densely glandular pilose; bracts spathulate, 2.5-3 x 0.5 mm. Calyx segments deltoid, 2.5-3 x 1.5 mm, slightly spreading, densely glandular pilose. Corolla 28-30 mm long, sparsely glandular pilose outside, glabrescent inside but sparingly pubescent on the floor; tube cylindric 18-23 mm, basal width 3-4 mm, mouth width 4.5-5 mm, deep mauve outside, white inside; lower lip 10 mm long, three-lobed, lobes 6 x 9mm, pale mauve diluting to white in the throat, 2mauve sinus chevrons sometimes present; upper lip7 mm long, 2-lobed. Stamens 2, filaments arising in the lower third of the corolla tube, filaments 4-5 mm long, connective sparsely glandular pilose, anthers connate, 2 mm long; staminodes 2, 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Pollen spheroidal, 10-12 x 10-12 µm, tricolpate, colpi weakly verrucose, mesocolpiscabrate, apparently imperforate, poles apocolpate. Gynoecium 10-12 mm long; ovary 5-6 mm long, densely sericeous; style 5-6 mm long, pilose; stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule 25-30 x 2.5-3 mm, pilose.
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