Perennial herb with several stems from a woody rootstock; stems decumbent to ascending 0.2-0.35 m long, thinly to densely villous. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-elliptic or elliptic, variable in size but usually large when mature, 25-70 x 15-35 mm, concolorous, subglabrous to pilose and gland-dotted on both surfaces, apex obtuse to rounded, base obtuse to truncate, margin entire to somewhat distantly dentate. Inflorescence paniculate, lax, 100-200 mm long; verticils 2-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 8-18 x 3-8 mm, mauve-purple, persisting as an apical coma. Calyx 9-10 mm long at maturity, glandular-hispid. Corolla whitish to mauve, 12-14 mm long; tube 9-10 mm long, widening to 4 mm at the mouth; lower lip 3-4 mm long, often deflexed. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached about the middle of the tube, filaments pubescent near the base; lower pair united to the apex. Stigma bifid.
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