Ascending, perennial herb to 30 cm tall, becoming scabrous, with scattered, multicellular hairs. Basal leaves oblanceolate to obovate, with blunt teeth or entire; lamina 5-25 mm long, 1-3 mm wide. Cauline leaves stem-clasping, ovate to oblong; lamina 7-12 mm long. Raceme to 15 cm long; bracts leaf-like, smaller; peduncles 10-25 mm long; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm long; pedicel 0-5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 3 mm long, acute. Corolla 10-13 mm long, hairs scattered inside, enations obscure, auriculate; abaxial lobes 6-7 mm long; wings 2-2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly deltoid, 1.5 mm long. Ovules 4 or 5. Fruit subglobular, c. 2 mm diam.; valves entire. Seeds elliptic, 1 mm long, greyish brown, reticulate.