Bushy herb 0.15-0.3 m tall with several erect stems arising from a perennial woody rootstock; stems simple or branched, glandular-hispid. Leaves subsessile; blade lanceolate-elliptic, 15-20 x 7-9 mm, more or less concolorous, sparingly pubescent, the surface somewhat wrinkled and gland-dotted, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire. Inflorescence simple, 30-120 mm long, fairly dense; verticils 2-6-flowered; apical bracts occupying the upper third of the raceme, ovate to broadly ovate, 12-15 x 7-10 mm, whitish to rose-purple. Calyx 7-9 mm long at maturity, glandular-villous. Corolla white, drying yellow-brown, 11-12 mm long; tube c. 8 mm long, not expanding towards the throat; lower lip 3-4 mm long. Stamens shortly exserted, not exceeding the lower lip; upper pair attached about 1 mm from the base of the tube, pubescent for their entire length, scarcely exserted; lower pair united only at the base for c. 0.5 mm, filaments sparingly pubescent. Stigma clavate.
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