Stems brown, usually erect, bifariously hairy, to 50 cm tall. Leaves lanceolate or rarely linearlanceolate, widest about middle, quite deeply toothed, acute at apex, whitish beneath (drying pale brown), (2)-3-7-(12) × (0.5)-1-2-(3) cm. Inflorescences many-flowered, 10—15—(20) cm long; peduncle stout, 5—7—(10) cm, peduncle and rachis with 1-3 rows and pedicels with one discrete row of eglandular (and sometimes also glandular) hairs. Bracts and calyx ciliolate, sometimes glandular or glabrous. Corolla with purple ring at throat, anterior lobe >2 mm wide. Capsule dark brown, (2.5)-3-(4) × 3-(4) mm.