Erect herb to 60 cm tall, strigose. Basal leaves linear to elliptic; lamina 6-9 cm long, mostly 4-10 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 30 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel to 30 mm long, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 3-4 mm long. Corolla 12-15 mm long, almost glabrous inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 4-6 mm long; wings to 2 mm wide. Indusium depressed-obovate, 1 mm long. Ovules to 30. Fruit narrowly cylindrical, 12-26 mm long. Seeds flat, elliptic, 2.5 mm long, reticulate, black; wing c. 0.1 mm wide.