Ascending herb to 25 cm tall, glabrous, glaucous. Basal leaves linear, terete, channelled, entire, thick; lamina 5-8 cm long, c. 0.5 mm wide; cauline leaves sometimes clustered. Flowers in racemes to 10 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 5-10 mm long; bracteoles linear-deltoid, 1-1.5 mm long; pedicel 0.7-1.2 mm long, articulate. Sepals lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long. Corolla 10-12 mm long, with simple and glandular hairs inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 6-7 mm long; wings c. 2 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong, 1.5 mm long. Ovules c. 25. Fruit and seeds not seen.