Soft shrub branching from a perennial woody rootstock, forming a round bush 0.3-0.8 m tall; stems villous with short stellate hairs intermingled. Leaves sessile; blade narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 10-22 x 3-8 mm, upper surface dark grey to brownish and finely pubescent, under-surface densely grey to yellowish grey stellate-velvety, apex acute to obtuse, base somewhat cuneate, margin revolute, entire or finely toothed above the middle. Inflorescence simple or branched, 60-220 mm long; verticils 4-6-flowered; bracts ovate, acute, 5-6 mm long, caducous. Calyx 9-10 mm long at maturity, glandular-hispid. Corolla pale mauve, c. 17 mm long; tube c. 14 mm long, widening to 4 mm at the mouth; lower lip 3 mm long, eventually deflexed. Stamens well exserted beyond the lower lip; upper pair attached below the middle of the tube, filaments glabrous; lower pair united to near the apex. Stigma minutely bifid.
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