Shrub 0.6-2 m tall, much branched; stems with tufts of leaves along the stem, densely villous. Leaves sessile; blade linear to narrowly oblong, 4-10 x 1.5-3 mm, densely silvery sericeous on both surfaces, apex rounded, base shortly cuneate, margin entire. Inflorescence borne terminally and on short lateral shoots, racemose or occasionally branched, dense, 20-50 mm long, densely villous; verticils 2-flowered, 1-2 mm apart; bracts 1.5-3 mm long. Calyx 4 mm long, thickly covered with white to pale yellowish woolly hairs; tube villous in the throat. Corolla cream, yellow or brownish yellow, 7-9 mm long; tube 5-7 mm long; lower lip 2 mm long. Stamens exserted; 2 upper filaments attached about the middle of the corolla tube, pubescent near the base. Style well exserted.
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