Ascending herb to 25 cm tall, glabrous or glabrescent except inflorescence. Basal leaves narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, almost entire, with lamina 2-8 cm long, 2-4 mm wide; cauline leaves sessile, smaller, often auriculate. Flowers in racemes to 20 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 10-22 mm long, divergent in fruit, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long. Corolla 8-13 mm long, hairy in throat, without enations; abaxial lobes 2-4 mm long; wings 1-2 mm wide. Style 4-fid. Indusia oblong to obovate, c. 1 mm long. Ovules 8-12. Fruit subglobular, 2-3 mm diam.; valves gaping. Seeds elliptic, 2 mm long, verrucose, yellowish brown.
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