Rosulate perennial. Leaves 5-10, oblong, reaching 300 x 70 mm, lamina slightly decurrent, pilose, margins crenate. Inflorescence 5-15(-20)-flowered; peduncle to 200 mm tall, pilose. Sepals narrowly deltoid, 3.5-4.0 x 1.5 mm, pilose, red-brown. Corolla 38-47 mm long; tube26-32 mm long, lower half linear, 5 mm broad, upper half expanding, 15-18 mm at the throat, pilose externally and inside along corolla roof; limb bilabiate, upper lobes 8-10 x 10-12 mm, rounded; lower lip 15-18 mm long, lobes 8-10 x 10-12 mm. Stamens arising from waist of corolla; filaments 9-13 mm long, white, glabrous basally but with stalked glandular trichomes near connective; anthers 2 x 1 mm, pale mauve, connectives deep violet; posterior staminode minute, within a dorsal channel, lateral staminodes 2 mm long. Pollen prolate, 24-29 X10-12 pm, tricolporate, poles apocolpoid, exine minutely scabrate. Ovary ± 20 mm long, with dense appressed filiform trichomes; style 18 mm long, dorsiventrally compressed, with stalked glandular trichomes; stigma bifid, white, peripherally papillate. Fruit 90-110 x 3 mm, pendulous when mature.
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