Prostrate to decumbent, annual herb, ±glabrous or cottony-hairy; stems to 25 cm long. Leaves mostly basal, elliptic to oblanceolate, narrowing basally, dentate to lobed, with lamina 2-6 cm long, to 12 mm wide; cauline leaves smaller, broad at base, with a basal lobe on one side. Flowers in racemes to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 5-10 mm long; bracteoles linear 3-4 mm long; pedicel 12-15 mm long, not articulate. Sepals lanceolate, 6 mm long. Corolla c. 15 mm long, densely pubescent inside, with enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 8-11 mm long; wings c. 2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly ovate, folded. Ovules c. 35. Fruit ovoid to cylindrical, c. 10 mm long; valves usually entire, spreading. Seeds elliptic, 3 mm long, aculeate to setose, dark brown.
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