Root vertical, woody. Collar of stem densely woolly lanate. Stems absent or short upto 25 cm, unbranched. Leaves rosette-forming, dearly exceeding inflorescence, pinnatifid to bipinnatifid; lamina ± broad oblong in outline, 5-10 x 3.5-5 cm, with a dense indumentum on both surfaces of stellate-dendroid hairs and fewer long simple hairs; petiole 3-5 cm densely white villous. Verticillasters 1-4, conferted or distant, densely lanate. Bracts c. 20 x 2 mm, mucronulate. Calyx c. 20 mm, tubular-campanulate, densely covered with only long multicellular simple hairs; teeth short, truncate abruptly ending in a c. 1.5 mm mucro. Corolla deep yellow, handsome, c. 40 mm; upper and lower lip subequal c. 20 mm; tube not annulate within. Nutlets not known.

Type: Afghanistan, Kabul, Honigbetger (holo. W!).

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, C. Asia.

Generally a subalpine species, recognized by its acaulous (or almost so) habit and deep yellow flowers. A very close ally of Eremostachys speciosa Rupr. and regarded by Adylov et al. (in Vvedensky, Conspect. Fl. As. Med. 9: 95. 1987) as a synonym of it, as Phlomoides speciosa (Rupr.) Adylov, Kamelin & Machmedov.