Erect to ascending herb to 35 cm tall, strigose. Basal leaves lanceolate, entire or crenate-dentate, often thick; lamina 4-8 cm long, 1-11 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 15 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 1-4 cm long, indistinctly articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals narrowly oblong, 2-3 mm long. Corolla 8-14 mm long, with scattered hairs inside, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 2.5-4 mm long; wings to 1.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly oblong, 0.8-1 mm long. Ovules 20-30. Fruit globular, 2-3 mm diam. Seeds orbicular, 1-1.5 mm diam., dark brown, reticulate; wing c. 0.5 mm wide.