Soft shrub 1-1.5 m tall, freely branched; stems softly stellate-tomentose. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 30-60 x 18-30 mm, upper surface subglabrous, under-surface densely grey stellate-pubescent, apex obtuse to rounded, base truncate to obtuse, margin finely crenate-dentate; petiole 6-12 mm long. Inflorescence usually branched, fairly dense, 80-180 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered, 10-20 mm apart; bracts persisting at the apex, mauve-purple, ovate, acute, 10-15 x 5.10 mm. Calyx about 8 mm long, glandular-setulose. Corolla mauve-pink, 18-22 mm long; tube 15-17 mm long, widening to 6-8 mm at the mouth; upper lip 1 mm long; lower lip 4-6 mm long, horizontal to slightly deflexed. Stamens exserted well beyond the lower lip, curled upwards; upper pair attached below the middle of the tube, puberulous at the base; lower pair united to the apex. Stigma bifid.
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