Robust perennial, with a thick branched woody stock. Stems up to tall, erect, densely glandular pubescent. Leaves 5-7 veined, 10-100(-160) x 10-30(-50) mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or spathulate, the leaves with a long attenuate base, apex acute, densely pubescent. Bracts lanceolate, glandular-pubescent. Inflorescence paniculate, the lateral branches ending in usually a 3-7-flowered dichasis. Pedicels densely glandular. Calyx 7-20 mm, cylindrical clavate in fruit, densely glandular-pubescent; teeth lanceolate, acute, with a hyaline ciliate margin; nerves greenish, distinct. Petal white, limb c.9 mm, deeply divided into 2 lobes, each lobe further divided, claw 20-22 mm, clearly exserted from the calyx, not auriculate. Coronal scales a Carpophore 2-4 mm, pubescent. Capsule c. 14 mm, ovoid, included in the calyx.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

Type: Described from S. Europe and the Orient, Hb. Linn. 582, 7(LINN).

Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Pakistan, India.

A common species usually growing on rocks at 1100-1150 m.