Hedge, I.C. (1990) Labiatae. Flora of Pakistan 192: 1-310
Plants perennial, sturdy herbs; roots thick, woody, vertical; collars usually woolly, sometimes scarcely so. Stems simple, 40-80(-120) cm tall, usually thinly pubescent with simple hairs. Leaves petiolate; petioles up to 10 cm long; blades oblong to ovate in outline, 10-20 cm long, 5-10 cm wide. bboth surfaces sparsely pubescent of simple hairs, rarely also with some stellate-dendroid hairs, margins simple and crenate to pinnatipartite or pinnatisect and lobed or to serrate. Inflorescences with 7-14 verticillasters, each with 8-12 flowers, the verticillasters varying from more or less touching to widely spaced, more or less white lanate; bracts 1/2-2/3 the length of the calyces, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, spinulose. Calyces 12-15 mm long, broadly ovate-campanulate, somewhat coriaceous, with white non-glandular hairs, sometimes also with shorter glandular hairs, teeth ending in spines 1-2 mm long; corollas 25-30 mm long, yellow, tubes included in the calyces, without an annulus, lower lips subequal to or longer than the upper, sometimes with a very wide middle lobed; upper lips villous with white simple hairs. Nutlets about 7 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, brown-black, 3-angled.
Phlomoides superba grows in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and in northwestern India. It is in the Flora of Pakistan as Eremostachys superba.