Erect to ascending herb to 50 cm tall, pale green to glaucous, glabrous or with few simple and glandular hairs. Basal leaves prominently 3-veined towards base, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, entire or with few, narrow teeth; lamina 4-10 cm long, 5-10 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 25 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 20-50 mm long, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm long. Corolla 14-16 mm long, pubescent inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 6-7 mm long; wings c. 2 mm wide. Indusium depressed-ovate, 2 mm long, bearded below. Ovules 20-30. Fruit ovoid to globular, 6-7 mm diam. Seeds elliptic, 3.5 mm long, colliculate, greyish; wing 0.5 mm wide, whitish.
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