Suffrutex, unbranched; stems numerous about 1.2–1.5 m tall, densely pale ferruginous-velvety hairy, becoming less so with age.Leaves up to 12, appearing falsely verticillate due to congestion of 3 lateral branches at each node, but leaves actually paired; 1.5–8 × 0.3–1.2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, discolorous, velvety-hairy with pale ferruginous hairs above, densely white velvety-woolly beneath; stipules connate, 3 mm long with appendix 5–6(10) mm long; petiole c. 3 mm long.Inflorescences congested in the axils forming contiguous verticils, densely velvety-hairy, many-flowered; peduncle up to 3 mm long; pedicels ± obsolete; bracts 6 mm long, linear.Calyx tube 2 mm long, subglobose, densely hairy; lobes 5 mm long, linear, ± obtuse.Corolla shortly apiculate in bud; pale greenish outside, white inside; tube 4.5–5 mm long, cylindrical, white-velvety outside and densely hairy at the throat and with a ring of deflexed hairs inside towards the base; lobes 3.5 × 1.5 mm, ± lanceolate with an appendage 2 mm long.Style scarcely exserted; pollen presenter cylindrical, ± sulcate, 5-lobulate at the apex.Fruit not seen (see below).
