Erect herb to 50 cm tall, with adventitious roots, glabrous. Leaves mostly basal from stock, linear to obovate, narrowing basally, entire or slightly dentate, thick; lamina 1-5 cm long, 2-11 mm wide. Flowers in spreading thyrse-like panicles to 40 cm long; bracts linear, 0.5-3 cm long; peduncle to 14 cm long; bracteoles similar to bracts but smaller; pedicel c. 3 mm long, obscurely articulate. Sepals narrow to very narrowly obovate, 2-6 mm long. Corolla 12-15 mm long, pubescent inside, with enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes c. 6 mm long; wings 3 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate. Ovules c. 25. Fruit narrowly cylindrical to obovoid, 8-10 mm long; valves ±bifid. Seeds elliptic, 1.5 mm long, dark brown, glossy, reticulate-foveate.
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