Erect, diffuse herb to 30 cm tall, often ±woody basally, strigose. Leaves cauline, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, entire; lamina 5-12 cm long, 3-20 mm wide; marginal veins prominent. Flowers in racemes to 10 cm long, or subumbels; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 4-7 cm long, articulate; bracteoles rarely present immediately below ovary. Sepals lanceolate, 4-5 mm long. Corolla 15-19 mm long, hairy inside denser basally, without enations, auriculate; abaxial lobes 6-7 mm long; wings to 3.5 mm wide. Indusium semi-circular, 1.5 mm long. Ovules to 40. Fruit obovoid, 10-12 mm long. Seeds thick, orbicular, 2.5 mm diam., yellowish brown, reticulate; wing c. 0.3 mm wide.