Perennial herb with creeping or ascending stems up to 10–30 cm tall from woody rootstock; stem densely pubescent with 0.2–0.3 mm long curved-appressed hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic, moderately pubescent along veins and margins with 0.3–0.8 mm long curved to spreading hairs, up to 12–14 x 4 mm, apex obtuse, base attenuate to rounded; petiole up to 1–2 mm long. Flowers in 2–4-flowered spikes borne alternately or very rarely opposite in leaf-axils; peduncles c. 10–20 mm long; bracts narrowly triangular-subulate, 1.5–4 x 0.3–0.9 mm; bracteoles 1.7–4 x 0.3–0.7 mm. Calyx of 3 long and 2 short lobes; lobes lanceolate-subulate, glabrous or rarely pubescent, lower ones c. 3–5 x 0.7–1.1 mm, upper ones c. 3.3–8 x 0.5–1.1 mm. Corolla white, usually with purple markings, slightly longer than calyx, 4.5–6 mm long; tube 2.1–3.2 mm long; lower lip c. 3 mm long; upper lip erect, c. 2.8 mm long. Anthers 1–1.5 mm long, tail of lower cell c. 0.2 mm long. Capsule 6–8 x 2–3.2 mm, sterile in lower 1/3, acute at the apex, moderately densely pubescent in upper part with c. 0.3 mm long slightly retrorse hairs. Seeds reticulate, scarcely flattened, c. 1.4–1.8 x 1.5–2 mm.