Clump-forming perennial, suffruticose at base. Stems erect-ascending, 30-60 cm, sometimes purplish; below, eglandular vinous with a few glandular hairs, above with numerous short eglandular antrorse hairs few or no capitate glandular hairs and few sessile oil globules. Leaves pinnate with 2-3 pairs of lateral segments, below with a dense tomentose indumentum of antrorse hairs and numerous sessile oil globules; terminal segment oblong to linear-elliptic 3-4 x 1-2.5 cm; petiole up to 3 cm villous. Inflorescence showy, of 8-20-flowered distant verticillasters, usually unbranched. Bracts leafy, ovate-to lanceolate-ovate, green lilac or purplish, c. 2 x 1 cm; bracteoles present. Pedicels c. 2 mm in flower to c. 5 mm in fruit and erect-spreading. Calyx prominent, purplish, campanulate to broadly infundibuliform, c. 16 mm long in flower, expanding and broadening in fruit to c. 20 mm with diverging lips, membranous-reticulate, eglandular tomentose especially on veins; upper lip scarcely 3-denticulate. Corolla rose to magenta with white markings on lip, c. 23 mm long; tube c. 17 mm, ± straight, incompletely annulate; upper lip straight, bind. Lower thecae fertile, adhering; staminodes present. Nutlets ± spherical, c. 3 x 3 mm, smooth with some sessile glands at apex.