Erect, shrubby perennial to 50 cm tall, glabrous. Basal leaves linear to oblanceolate, entire or with coarse teeth, thick; lamina 5-8 cm long, 1.5-10 mm wide. Raceme to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like, smaller; peduncles 5-15 mm long; bracteoles narrowly elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long; pedicel 2-3 mm long. Sepals narrowly oblong, 5 mm long. Corolla 13-15 mm long, with some hairs inside, with enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 5-7 mm long; wings c. 2 mm wide. Indusium square, 2 mm long. Ovules to 30. Fruit ovoid, 6 mm long; valves usually entire. Seeds orbicular, 1.5 mm diam., yellow-brown, colliculate-punctate to reticulate.