Ascending, perennial herb to 20 cm tall, strigose and sometimes cottony-hairy. Basal leaves linear to ovate in outline, dentate, lobed or entire; lamina 2-14 cm long, mostly 4-25 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 10 cm long, or subumbels, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm long. Corolla 12-23 mm long, hairs inside in rows confluent below, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes mostly 5-10 mm long; wings 1.2-2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovules to 24. Fruit ±globular, 5-8 mm diam. Seeds orbicular, c. 5 mm diam.; wing c. 1 mm wide.Widespread in inland areas of the eastern two-thirds of the continent in a large number of communities in a wide variety of soils.
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