Decumbent to ascending, usually perennial herb, with simple, silky multicellular, and stellate hairs; stems to 20 cm long. Leaves mostly basal, ovate to oblong, narrowing basally, dentate, hairy on both surfaces; lamina 2-4 cm long, 5-12 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 5 cm long, or solitary in leaf axils; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 10-20 mm long; bracteoles linear, 4-8 mm long; pedicel 10-20 mm long, not articulate. Sepals narrowly oblong to ovate, 2-3 mm long. Corolla 12-15 mm long, with few hairs inside, enations absent, auriculate; abaxial lobes 7 or 8 mm long; wings c. 1.5 mm wide. Indusium semi-orbicular. Ovules c. 20. Fruit oblong, 10-12 mm long; valves separating to sepal attachment, bifid. Seeds elliptic, 2 mm long, brown, smooth.
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