Plants perennial. Stems ca. 1 m tall, woody at base, ca. 5 mm in diam., densely simple or branched white pubescent, sparsely golden yellow glandular. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade ovate-oblong, 4-7 × 2.5 cm, 2-pinnatipartite; lobes oblong to oblong-linear, 2-4 × 0.5-1.4 mm, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent, densely golden yellow glandular, apex obtuse. Verticillasters in lax panicles 27-40 cm; floral leaves 8-30 × 3-8 mm; bracts lanceolate-linear, 1-1.5 × 0.5 mm, pilose, apex acute. Pedicel ca. 0.5 mm, pubescent, spreading, pendulous after anthesis. Calyx ca. 4.5 mm, purple, base densely white or purple pilose, glandular, apex sparsely hairy or subglabrous, tube 4 × 1.5-2 mm; upper lip short, ± entire to 3-denticulate, ca. 1 × 2 mm; lower lip as long, margin densely ciliolate. Corolla rose, 0.9-1.1 cm, sparsely pubescent, tube 5-6.5 × 2 mm; upper lip 2.5-3 × 6.5-7 mm, lobes ovate to subcircular, 1.5-2 × 2 mm; lower lip oblong-ovate, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse. Nutlets 1.8-2 × 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul.

Gravelly hillsides, dry riverbeds, riverbanks; ca. 2000 m. Xizang [Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan; SW Asia].