Prostrate to ascending, short-lived herb, densely glandular-viscid, sparsely strigose; stems to 40 cm long. Basal leaves linear to lanceolate, dentate to entire; lamina 2-9 cm long, 2-15 mm wide. Flowers in secund racemes to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 8-15 mm long, arcuate-divergent, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals elliptic, c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla 3-12 mm long, with few hairs inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 1-3 mm long; wings triangular, 0.5-1 mm wide. Indusium semi-elliptic, 0.5-1 mm long. Ovules 15-20. Fruit globular, 4-5 mm diam. Seeds orbicular, 2 mm diam., glossy, black; wing c. 0.3 mm wide, white, mucilaginous, overlapping body.
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