Prostrate to ascending herb to 20 cm long, cottony-pubescent; stems usually stoloniferous. Basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate, narrowing basally, dentate, glabrescent above, cottony-tomentose and with few short hairs, sometimes ±glabrescent below; lamina 2-6 cm long, 5-15 mm wide; cauline leaves smaller. Flowers distant in racemes to 5 cm long, or solitary in leaf axils; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 3-5 cm long; bracteoles linear, 5-12 mm long; pedicel 3-5 cm long, not articulate. Sepals narrowly oblong to ovate, 4-5 mm long. Corolla 13-14 mm long, pubescent inside, with small enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 5-6 mm long; wings c. 2 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong. Ovules 12-18. Fruit ovoid, c. 10 mm long; valves bifid at apex. Seeds elliptic, 3 mm long, aculeate, yellowish.
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