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Shrub, 1–3 m tall, with simple and usually also branched hairs. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade elliptic to obovate, up to 50–120 × 20–50 mm, more densely hairy beneath, apex obtuse to acute or sometimes acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescences rather lax; bracts deciduous or persistent. Fruiting calyx deciduous, 12–22 mm long, apparently open, almost glabrous in the mouth, purple before maturation; upper lobe folded over and obscuring the rest of the calyx, narrowly ovate, 13–22 × 9–15 mm, cordate at the base, densely hairy near the pedicel with rather long ± branched hairs; lateral and lower lobes subequal, deltoid. Corolla 13–16 mm long, pale purple; tube only slightly broadened towards the throat. Anterior stamens 3–6 mm longer than the lower lip of the corolla; posterior pair without knee-bend or outgrowth; anthers with divergent thecae. Nutlets probably solitary in the fruit, c. 3.5 × 2 mm, smooth, brown, not producing mucilage when wet.

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Shrub, 1–3 m tall, with simple and usually also branched hairs. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade elliptic to obovate, up to 50–120 × 20–50 mm, more densely hairy beneath, apex obtuse to acute or sometimes acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescences rather lax; bracts deciduous or persistent. Fruiting calyx deciduous, 12–22 mm long, apparently open, almost glabrous in the mouth, purple before maturation; upper lobe folded over and obscuring the rest of the calyx, narrowly ovate, 13–22 × 9–15 mm, cordate at the base, densely hairy near the pedicel with rather long ± branched hairs; lateral and lower lobes subequal, deltoid. Corolla 13–16 mm long, pale purple; tube only slightly broadened towards the throat. Anterior stamens 3–6 mm longer than the lower lip of the corolla; posterior pair without knee-bend or outgrowth; anthers with divergent thecae. Nutlets probably solitary in the fruit, c. 3.5 × 2 mm, smooth, brown, not producing mucilage when wet.

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Shrub, 1–3 m tall, with simple and usually also branched hairs. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade elliptic to obovate, up to 50–120 × 20–50 mm, more densely hairy beneath, apex obtuse to acute or sometimes acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescences rather lax; bracts deciduous or persistent. Fruiting calyx deciduous, 12–22 mm long, apparently open, almost glabrous in the mouth, purple before maturation; upper lobe folded over and obscuring the rest of the calyx, narrowly ovate, 13–22 × 9–15 mm, cordate at the base, densely hairy near the pedicel with rather long ± branched hairs; lateral and lower lobes subequal, deltoid. Corolla 13–16 mm long, pale purple; tube only slightly broadened towards the throat. Anterior stamens 3–6 mm longer than the lower lip of the corolla; posterior pair without knee-bend or outgrowth; anthers with divergent thecae. Nutlets probably solitary in the fruit, c. 3.5 × 2 mm, smooth, brown, not producing mucilage when wet.