Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, up to 1.5(2) m in height, erect, ramose. Stems and old branches with greyish-brown bark. Young branches green, although they appear slightly whitish because they are covered with a dense lanate tomentum of whitish hairs. Leaves (3-9 \u00d7 0.8-3.5 cm), ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base, with long petioles (1-4 cm), margin subentire or with wide, obtuse and shallow teeth; leaf blade very rugose, with very pronounced midrib on the underside, deep green and glabrescent on the upper side and whitish-cottony on the underside (due to being covered with whitish stellate hairs). Inflorescence in false verticils (verticillasters), with 6-10 flowers each, on the axil of upper leaves. Floral bracts lanceolate, soft to the touch, cottony. Flowers light purple, pinkish, large (22-27 mm). Calyx tubular-campanulate 15-20 mm, with 5 teeth longer than wide, obtuse, each ending in a mucro shorter than the tooth. Corolla with 2 very unequal lips; the upper lip covering the rest of the flower in the shape of a helmet; the lower lip smaller, divided into 3 lobes. Stamens 4, hidden under the upper lip. Fruit very small, dry, consisting of 4 nutlets (frequently 1-3 due to poor development of 1 nutlet), dark, included in the persistent calyx. 2n = 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13308","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n