Subshrub up to 100 cm. high, with numerous stiff spreading branches, the lower ones ± decumbent.. Stems largely woody, light brown, up to 0.5 cm. thick.. Young branches and leaves with dense whitish to greyish green cover of hairs.. Leaves scattered or congested on young branches (older parts without leafy shoots); petioles 5–20 mm. long; lamina elliptic to ovate, 11–45 mm. long, 7–25 mm. broad, obtuse, attenuate at base, subentire to sinuately dentate, rather thick, with prominent midnerve beneath.. Racemes 5–20-flowered, in ripe fruit lax, up to 25 cm. long; pedicels ascending to erect, stiff, 7–15 mm. long, widened below the flower.. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 12–17 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. broad, the inner markedly broader than the outer.. Petals lilac to pale pink, whitish at base, 25–38 mm. long, distinctly clawed; blade at least 15 mm. long, 10–15 mm. broad, apically rounded.. Siliqua linear, usually somewhat curved, 30–80 mm. long, ± 2 mm. broad, with transverse septa to low thickenings of the valves between the seeds; valves keeled, hornless; style ± 0.5 mm. long, stigma usually with short lateral projections.. Seeds minutely reticulate, red-brown, elliptic to subrectangular in outline, compressed, 1.3–1.6 mm. long, 1–1.2 mm. broad, with a very narrow wing.
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