Dense thicket forming shrub c.2m high, covering many square metres. Petioles and leaf midrib pink; lamina shining with impressed veins above. Flowers in dense erect spikes, depauperate in the specimen collected. Corolla pink, ± erect, 7-7.5 cm long, strongly 2 - lipped, the lower lip c. 3 cm long and curving downwards.