Soft shrub 1-1.5 m tall, branching; stems hispidulous. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate to broadly ovate, 30-50 x 20-35 mm, drying dark brown, tomentulose, apex obtuse to acute, base obtuse to truncate, margin crenate-dentate; petiole 3-10 mm long. Inflorescence a fairly dense terminal panicle 100-200 mm long; verticils usually 6-flowered, 4-8 mm apart; bracts 5 x 4 mm. Calyx cylindrical, 10-11 mm long, glandular-hispid, with the uppermost tooth broadly obovate, distinctly larger than the lower 4 lanceolate-deltoid teeth. Corolla mauve-pink to deep pink, 22-25 mm long; tube 20-22 mm long, gradually widening to 5-6 mm at the mouth; lower lip 3-5 mm long, often deflexed at maturity. Stamens well exserted; 2 upper filaments attached below the middle of the corolla tube, puberulous near the base. Style well exserted.
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