Herb or soft shrublet 0.6-1.3 m tall; stems solitary or few from a woody rootstock, slender, sparingly branched, sericeous, with tufts of leaves along the stems. Leaves subsessile; blade linear-lanceolate to elliptic-obovate, 12-25 x 2-8 mm, densely sericeous, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire. Inflorescence a fairly lax panicle 90-250 mm long; verticils 2-flowered, up to 15 mm apart; bracts 2.5-3 mm long. Calyx 5-6 mm long, becoming subrotund; tube villous in the throat. Corolla white to pinkish, 10-12 mm long; tube 8 mm long; lower lip 3 mm long. Stamens well exserted; 2 upper filaments attached near the middle of the tube, sparsely hairy. Style well exserted.
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