Prostrate to decumbent, short-lived herb; stems to 40 cm long. Basal leaves oblanceolate, lyrate to entire, ±thick, strigose; lamina 3-6 cm long, 4-12 mm wide. Flowers in ±secund racemes to 18 cm long; bracts smaller and narrower than leaves; pedicel 6-11 mm long, articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals mostly ovate, c. 1-1.6 mm long. Corolla 4-6 mm long, villous-pubescent inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes c. 1.5 mm long; wings c. 0.2 mm wide. Indusium depressed-obovate, c. 0.6 mm long. Ovules to 20. Fruit globular, 2.5-3 mm diam.; valves often deciduous, septum persistent. Seeds orbicular, c. 2 mm diam., glossy, black; wing c. 0.5 mm wide, white, mucilaginous, overlapping body.
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