Erect to ascending herb, ±viscid in upper parts; stems to 60 cm long. Basal leaves often persistent, obovate to oblanceolate, dentate; with lamina 4.5-10 cm long, 15-30 mm wide; cauline leaves sessile, ovate to elliptic, smaller, auriculate, with hairs mostly simple, glabrescent except margins and midrib. Flowers in racemes to 40 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 10-25 mm long, glandular-hairy, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 4-6 mm long. Corolla 14-20 mm long, hairy inside, without enations; abaxial lobes 3-4 mm long; wings 1.5-2 mm wide. Style 3-fid. Median indusium ovate, c. 1 mm long, lateral ones narrower and overtopping central one. Ovules 15-20. Fruit globular to ovoid, 4-5 mm diam.; valves gaping. Seeds elliptic, 2 mm long, verrucose, brown.
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