Herb to 5 cm tall, with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, tapering towards base, dentate, glabrescent except margins and midrib; lamina 1-2 cm long, 3-7 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 2 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel to 5 mm long, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals elliptic-oblong, 2.5-3 mm long. Corolla c. 6 mm long, hairy toward base inside, without enations; lobes almost equal; wings c. 0.5 mm wide. Style 3-fid. Median indusium ovate, 0.5 mm long, lateral ones similar. Ovules not seen. Fruit subglobular, 3 mm diam.; valves gaping. Seeds elliptic-oblong, 2.5 mm long, verrucose-granular, pale brown.