Rootstock with petiolar remains; collar not or scarcely woolly villous. Stems single, 20-45 cm, with numerous short stellate-dendroid hairs, often purplish. Leaves c. 10-15 x 2-4 (-6) cm, linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, crenate to dentate-laciniate, attenuate above, cuneate at base, with short stellate-dendroid hairs on both surfaces; petiole upto 6 cm; upper cauline leaves few, small. Inflorescence a broadly pyramidal thyrse with long pedunculate 5-7-flowered cymes. Bracts 25-40 mm, subulate, spinulose, spreading. Calyx including teeth 25-30 mm, tubular-infundibuliform, with a ± dense indumentum of short stellate-dendroid hairs sometimes also with very long simple multicellular hairs; teeth 5-7 mm, subulate from a broad triangular base, erect or spreading. Corolla 35-40 mm; upper lip brown-purple, bearded at margin; lower lip somewhat longer than upper, yellowish. Nutlets c. 5 mm x 2.5 mm, dark brown, apically very densely tufted.

Type: Afghanistan/Pakistan, Griffith (K!) [see Hedge in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 23: 160. 1968].

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan.

An unmistakable and isolated species on account of its thyrsoid inflorescence, separated flowers and very long calyx teeth.