Soft branched shrub 0.35-0.6 m tall, woody at the base; stems stellate-tomentose. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade lanceolate to ovate, 15-25 x 4-12 mm, densely stellate grey velvety on both surfaces, apex acute, base obtuse, margin entire. Inflorescence simple or occasionally with a pair of branches at the base; verticils 2-6-flowered; bracts broadly ovate to subrotund, 7-11 x 5-8 mm, persisting as a dense, mauve-purple coma. Calyx 5 mm long at maturity, sparingly stellate tomentose. Corolla white to pale mauve, 13 mm long; tube 9 mm long, widening to 3 mm at the mouth; lower lip 4 mm long, often deflexed. Stamens shortly exserted, not or only slightly exceeding the lower lip; upper pair attached about the middle of the tube, filaments pubescent for about two-thirds their length; lower pair loosely joined for about half their length. Style capitate.
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