Leaves: Fertile shoots with green leaves, rugose beneath, petiolate, very obtuse, cordate.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: One or two dense terminal pseudoverticillasters, multiflorous, surrounded by floral leaves equal to or longer than the inflorescence, deflexed. Bracts linear, numerous, appressed to calyces, about half their length. Calyx tomentose, whitish to golden yellow, angular, furrowed, truncate at the top, with limb reduced to five very short, obtuse cusps. Corolla golden yellow, more than twice as long as the calyx; upper lip somewhat retuse; filaments of the longer stamens appendiculate. Nutlets glabrous .
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: Rocky slopes, montane to subalpine belts.
Life-form & habit: Shrubby perennial, often multicaule, 30–100 cm or more, covered on sterile green shoots with a tomentum at first whitish, later turning golden yellow. Young shoots elongated.