Soft, branched shrub c. 1 m tall; stems stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, bark flaking in strips. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade ovate to broadly elliptic, c. 15 x 10 mm, thickish, densely and somewhat coarsely grey stellate-velvety on both surfaces, apex obtuse, base obtuse to truncate, margin entire; petiole 1-3 mm long. Inflorescence usually simple, 40-50 mm long; verticils 2-flowered; bracts broadly elliptic, c. 8 x 5 mm, persisting as a mauve-purple coma. Calyx 8-10 mm long at maturity, stellate-tomentose. Corolla mauve-pink, 20-25 mm long; tube 17-20 mm long, 3 mm wide at the mouth; lower lip 4-6 mm long. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached near the throat; lower pair united for about half their length. Stigma entire or minutely bifid.
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