Erect herb to 50 cm tall, softly hairy to almost glabrous; tap root thin. Basal leaves oblanceolate, lyrato-pinnatifid, sometimes glabrescent; lamina to 8 cm long, 2 cm wide. Cauline leaves dentate to entire, smaller. Flowers in branched thyrses or racemes to 35 cm long; bracts linear to obovate, 5-20 mm long, dentate, thick; peduncle 1-12 mm long; bracteoles linear-oblanceolate, 2-7 mm long; pedicel 3-5 mm long. Sepals linear to lanceolate, 2-3 mm long. Corolla 12-14 mm long, villous inside, without enations, scarcely auriculate; abaxial lobes c. 4 mm long; wings c. 1.5 mm wide. Ovules many, scattered; indusium obtriangular, 1.5 mm long. Fruit ±cylindrical, 4 mm long, prominently beaked; valves split to base and appearing as 4. Seeds brownish.
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