Erect shrub to 50 cm tall,-glandular pubescent, with few simple hairs. Leaves ovate to elliptic in outline, pinnately lobed to lyrate; lamina 4-8 cm long, 2-5 cm wide; petiole to 3 cm long. Flowers in racemes to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 0-1 cm long; bracteoles linear, 2 mm long; pedicel 15-21 mm long, indistinctly articulate. Sepals lanceolate, 6-8 mm long. Corolla 18-22 mm long, densely hairy inside, with enations, scarcely auriculate; abaxial lobes 9-10 mm long; wings 2-2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly elliptic. Ovules 40-50. Fruit cylindrical to ovoid; 10-12 mm long; valves bifid. Seeds broadly elliptic, 2-5 mm long, yellow-brown, tuberculate.