Woody shrublet, somewhat gnarled and branching, decumbent to ascending, 0.3-1.5 m tall; stems villous. Leaves sessile; blade ericoid, coriaceous, linear to linear-elliptic, 10-30 x 1.5-5 mm, upper surface dark green to blackish and subglabrous to appressed villous, under-surface densely appressed villous with long white matted hairs; apex and base tapering, margin strongly revolute, entire. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, 50-100 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered; bracts ovate, acute, 5-8 x 3-5 mm, caducous. Calyx 6-8 mm long at maturity, glandular-hispid. Corolla white, 12-15 mm long; tube 10-15 mm long, more or less tubular, 3 mm wide at the mouth; lower lip 2-3 mm long. Stamens exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached below the middle of the tube, filaments finely puberulous in the lower half; lower pair united for almost their entire length. Stigma minutely bifid.
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