Erect, scapose herb, woody at base, to 40 cm tall, densely silvery villous; stems leafy, to 15 cm long; hairs long, in axillary tufts. Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, entire; lamina 3-5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 30 cm long; bracts linear to triangular, to 5 mm long; pedicel 1-4 mm long, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 2-3 mm long. Corolla 8-10 mm long, pubescent in throat, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 3-4 mm long; wings c. 1 mm wide. Indusium depressed-obovate, 1 mm long, thinly bearded below. Ovules 12-15. Fruit subglobular, 4-5 mm diam. Seeds orbicular, 3 mm diam., colliculate; wing 0.5 mm wide, thin, white.Corolla yellow, with simple and glandular hairs outside. A very distinctive species with a basal stem bearing leaves clothed with silvery hairs. Flowers are almost sessile, with very reduced bracts, and the auricles of the corolla are less differentiated than normally found in this section.
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