Erect herb to 60 cm tall, glabrous to cottony. Leaves usually basal on stock, oblanceolate to obovate, narrowing basally, entire to dentate; lamina 4-9.5 cm long, 5-20 mm wide. Flowers in narrow thyrses or racemes to 40 cm long; bracts linear to lanceolate, to 10 mm long; peduncle to 2.5 cm long; bracteoles linear, c. 3 mm long; pedicel to 1 mm long, ±articulate. Sepals linear, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Corolla to 12 mm long, villous inside, with enations, ±auriculate; abaxial lobes 2.5-4.5 mm long; wings 1-1.5 mm wide. Indusium oblong to square. Ovules 15-20. Fruit subglobular to obovoid, c. 4 mm long; valves entire. Seeds ±orbicular, 1 mm diam., blackish, reticulate-foveate.
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