Shrub or subshrub, hermaphrodite, up to 2 m in height, with young branches and leaf petioles glabrous and glaucous to densely puberulent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, lauroid, glabrous or puberulent, with petiole 1-10(20) mm and leaf blade 4-18(20) \u00d7 2-7.5(9) cm, ovate-elliptic, acute, sometimes rounded, with the base usually decurrent on the petiole. Inflorescence in dense bracteate spikes, solitary or in groups of 3(5), with peduncle 3-20(30) mm and axis puberulent and with glandular hairs \u00b1 densely arranged. Bracts form ovate to orbicular; those in lower nodes 10-25 \u00d7 8-20 mm. Flowers sessile, solitary or grouped in 3 in the lower nodes of the inflorescence, with 2 bracteoles at the base (1-3.5 mm). Calyx 3-7 mm, tubular, with 5 lanceolate lobes. Corolla with 5 fused petals, blueish-green, with tube 2-2.8 mm, narrow, curved, slightly widened below the lobes, and 2 lips; lower lip with 3 lobes, ovate or elliptical, the central wider than the lateral ones; the upper lip with a single lobe curved backwards and with a bifid apex. Androecium with 2 stamens, with medifixed dithecous anthers. Fruit in clavate capsule, with 2-4 seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13281","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n