Decumbent herb to 50 cm long, ±hirsute with mostly stellate and yellowish, multicellular hairs, some simple hairs. Leaves mostly basal, obovate to lanceolate, narrowing basally, usually dentate, hairy on both surfaces; lamina 3-12 cm long, 4-25 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 5 cm long, or solitary; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 1-6 cm long; bracteoles linear to lanceolate, 4-15 mm long; pedicel 3-5 cm long, not articulate. Sepals narrowly elliptic, 5-8 mm long. Corolla 18-25 mm long, glabrous inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 15-18 mm long; wings 2-3 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate, slightly folded. Ovules c. 30. Fruit ovoid to cylindrical, 10-15 mm long; valves separating to sepal attachment, bifid. Seeds elliptic, 1.8-2.5 mm long, aculeate, pale brown.
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