An erect soft undershrub 0,3 — 1,1 m tall, branching freely from the base; stems virgate, branching freely in the upper half or third, woody below, shortly greyish tomen-tose. Leaves drying greyish green to grey-brown, thinly tomentose above, denser to almost canescent and gland-dotted be­low, usually deeply 3-fid or 3—5-partite, rarely almost entire, 20—60 mm long; lobes linear to lanceolate, 10—35 x 3—8 mm, often again shortly lobed or toothed, margin entire, revolute; basal portion of leaf 3—8 mm broad, consisting of a winged midrib narrowing to a short petiole. Inflorescence a leafy panicle occupying the upper third of the stem; flowers usually in 3—7-flowered pedunculate cymes, rarely solitary; pedun­cle 5—20 (—25) mm long, pedicels 3—12 mm long; bracteoles usually very small and linear. Calyx greyish, 2,5—4 mm long, teeth about 2 mm long. Corolla 5—6 mm long; tube 2 mm long; lower lip obovate, 3—4 mm long, slightly concave, remaining 4 lobes oblong, rounded, 2 mm long. Anthers exserted by 6—8 mm. Fig. 2.