Shrub, sparingly branched, about 0.6 m tall; stems grey tomentose with dendroid hairs and long simple hairs. Leaves sessile to subsessile; blade ovate or lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 15-35 x 6-12 mm, densely grey stellate-velvety on both surfaces, upper surface darker grey than lower, apex obtuse to rounded, base obtuse, margin minutely crenate-dentate above the middle. Inflorescence simple or with a pair of branches near the base, 80-200 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered; bracts ovate, caducous, up to 5 mm long. Calyx 8-9 mm long at maturity, glandular-villous. Corolla mauve, 12-15 mm long; tube 10-12 mm long, widening to 3-4 mm at the mouth; lower lip 3 mm long. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached near the base of the corolla tube, filaments pubescent near the base; lower pair united almost to the apex. Stigma shortly bifid.
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