Authors: Kraenzl.
shrublet with bristly white hairy stems, variable in height and leaf character but very attractive at its best. Leaves leathery, 5-15 by 2-7mm, elliptic to ovate with a rounded or wedge-shaped base, bristly to downy hairy and having entire or very shallowly crenulate, revolute margins. Indorescence short-stemmed, composed of three to ten flowers. These are bright or lemon-yellow with an oblong slightly upcurved, pouched lower lip 1-1.5 by 8-14mm having a shallowly five-lobed tip. The large mouth is freckled red in the throat, sometimes forming a solid cross band. South-eastern Peru in exposed rocky scrub or grassy puna moorland at 2500-3800m. Common around Cuzco.
