Erect, sparsely hairy herb. Base and lower leaves unknown, upper leaves obovate or oblong, 4-6 by 1.5-2 cm, semiamplexicaulous, acute, covered densely by groups of mineralized cells. Cymes terminal, loose, ebracteate or with few bracts near base; lower pedicels longer than calyx and bent downwards in fruit. Sepals ovate, acute, sparsely appressed hairy, 5 mm long, after flowering elongated to 6-7 mm. Corolla shortly and broadly cylindrical, twice as long as calyx; fornices large, trapeziform. Stamens inserted at the middle of the tube. Gynobasis depressed pyramidate, with 4 large excavations, about as long as style. Nutlets 6 mm in diam., marginate, densely spiny, spines denser in the margin and ventrally than on the dorsal surface; embryo 4 mm long with nearly orbicular cotyledons and very short rootlet.
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