Prostrate herb, with scattered hairs; stems to 13 cm long. Leaves cauline and basal, thick; axillary hairs prominently villous; basal leaves oblanceolate, lyrate, with lamina 7-28 mm long, 2-5 mm wide; cauline leaves smaller. Flowers in terminal racemes to 8 cm long; bracts leaf-like, 5-9 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide; peduncle 2-3 mm long; bracteoles elliptic, c. 3 mm long; pedicel 3-5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2-3 mm long. Corolla 10-12 mm long, with enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes c. 4 mm long; wings 1.5-2 mm wide, dentate. Indusium broadly oblong, c. 1.2 mm long, purple, villous especially on undersurface. Ovules many, scattered. Fruit ovoid, 5-6 mm long, beaked; valves split to base and appearing as 4. Mature seeds not seen.
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