Short-lived herb to 50 cm tall, pubescent or glabrous; root system a short tap-root and numerous adventitious roots. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, dentate; lamina 14-100 mm long, 6-10 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 25 cm long; bracts linear to narrowly elliptic, 4-40 mm long, 0.5-2 mm wide; peduncle 7-80 mm long; bracteoles 1.5-2 mm long; pedicel 6-16 mm long, articulate. Sepals triangular to lanceolate, 1-2 mm long. Corolla 10-14 mm long, with or without a very few indistinct enations; abaxial lobes 5-6 mm long; wing c. 1.5 mm wide. Indusium truncate-obtriangular, purplish, villous towards base, concave. Ovules many, scattered. Fruit globular-ovoid, 5-6 mm long; valves entire. Seeds brown.
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