Shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, very aromatic, up to 1.5(2) m in height, upright, rarely prostrate, highly branched. Stems and older branches with greyish-brown bark, fissured longitudinally. Branches reddish and glabrous. Young branchlets subtetragonal, covered with very short whitish hairs. Leaves (10-40 \u00d7 1.4 mm), very abundant, linear, with entire margin, very revolute, obtuse, shortly petiolate, opposite, coriaceous, glabrous and deep and bright green on the upper side and densely covered with small whitish hairs on the underside. Inflorescence in short racemes, axillary or terminal, with small ovate and caducous bracts. Flower 9-14 mm. Calyx campanulate, bilabiate, with upper lip entire or subentire, lower lip deeply divided into 2 triangular teeth; with some hairs that are usually promptly caducous, then becoming glabrous, pruinose; green with reddish hues. Corolla from deep blue to whitish, with 2 very different lips: the upper lip subentire or with 2 elongated lobules, and the lower lip with 3 lobules, with a much larger central lobule. Stamens 2, very exserted. Fruit very small, brownish, included in the persistent calyx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13335","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n