Erect, branched subshrub to c. 60 cm tall, with loose brownish hairs when young, becoming grey. Leaves cauline, sessile, obovate to oblanceolate, usually dentate at apex, usually glabrescent above, hairy below; lamina 11-28 mm long, 3-15 mm wide. Flowers in loose leafless racemes to 20 cm long; bracteoles linear, to 2 mm long; pedicel 1-4 mm long. Sepals almost obsolete, covered by tuft of long silky hairs. Corolla 8-10 mm long; hairs outside much-branched, not appressed, type i, grey; wings 2-3 mm wide, shorter above auricle, with small appendage below auricle; calli obsolete. Ovary to 2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, to 4 mm long.