Much-branched, perennial subshrub to 80 cm tall, glandular-viscid. Leaves cauline, obovate to oblanceolate, dentate, sometimes glabrous; lamina 4-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide. Flowers in thyrses to 35 cm long; bracts leaf-like basally, smaller apically; peduncle 1-5 cm long; bracteoles elliptic to linear, 5-10 mm long; pedicel 1-7 mm long. Sepals lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 5-10 mm long. Corolla 20-25 mm long, villous-pubescent inside, with enations in rows, scarcely auriculate; lobes ±equal, 10-12 mm long; wings 1.5-3.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly obtriangular, 3 mm long, convex. Ovules 30-50. Fruit ovoid, 8-9 mm long, valves entire. Seed elliptic, 2 mm long, blackish brown.