Decumbent to ascending herb to 50 cm long, cobwebbed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves mostly towards base, linear to narrowly elliptic, narrowing basally, entire or dentate; 2-6 cm long, 2-13 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 40 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncle slender, mostly 5-20 mm long; bracteoles linear, 1-2 mm long; pedicel 5-10 mm long, not articulate. Sepals linear-ovate, 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla 10-13 mm long, sparsely pubescent inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 4-4.5 mm long; wings c. 1 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong. Ovules c. 12. Fruit globular, c. 8 mm diam.; valves bifid to midpoint. Seeds elliptic-oblong, 2 mm long, aculeate, pale yellow.
Home