Much branched shrub up to 2 m tall; stems densely leafy, sparse to densely appressed white-tomentose, dotted with orange-red gland-dots. Leaves petiolate; blade simple, thickish or thin-textured, suborbicular to elliptic or narrowly obovate, 15-35 (-55) x 6-20 (-40) mm, grey-tome ntose, gland-dotted, apex rounded to obtuse, base cuneate to cordate or shortly lobed, margin usually entire but sometimes crenate-dentate to eroso-crenate (the larger leaves); petiole 2—15 mm long. InflorescÂence simple, usually dense, of 3—12 vertiÂcils; verticils 2(—4)-flowered; bracts broadly ovate or obovate, persistent. Calyx broad-campanulate, expanding to 30 mm long in fruit, purplish and membranous, with short spreading glandular and eglandular hairs, dotted with orange-red gland-dots. Corolla golden brown, reddish brown, khaki or occasionally purplish, (30—) 35—45 (—50) mm long; tube c. 20 mm long, upper lip c. 25 mm long, slightly falcate; lower lip c. 12 mm long.
