Herbs medium sized, not drying black. Stems erect or ascending, unbranched. Leaves alternate, long petiolate basally; leaf blades lanceolate-oblong. Inflorescences racemose or spicate. Calyx lobes entire, triangular, ciliate. Corolla red to purple-red; tube barely exceeding calyx; galea strongly bent or falcate, densely villous at base and at margin; beak well developed, bent upward, long; lower lip narrow.

Three species.