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Subshrub, up to 0.2 m tall (in Somalia), aromatic. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade ± leathery, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 5–9 × 2–5.5 mm (in Somalia), bristly hairy, apex acute or subacute, base rounded, margin entire, thickened and often revolute. Inflorescence lax to rather dense, with ± spaced verticillasters; cymes 1–7-flowered (in Somalia); pedicels less than 3 mm long. Fruiting calyx almost straight 2.5–5 mm long, 13-ribbed, whitish hairy at the mouth; lobes subequal or slightly unequal, 0.5–1.5 mm long. Corolla 6–10 mm long, rose, violet or white; lips much shorter than the tube. Stamens shortly protruding beyond the mouth of the corolla-tube. Style protruding beyond the mouth of the corolla-tube, with subequal or slightly unequal branches. Nutlets ellipsoid-trigonous, with areole, c. 1 × 0.5 mm, producing mucilage when wet.