Ascending to decumbent herb, hirsute; stems to 10 cm long. Leaves dentate, linear; lamina c. 8 cm long and 5 mm wide; upper leaves progressively broader and subauriculate. Inflorescence a spike, to 8 cm long; bracts leaf-like. Sepals lanceolate, c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla c. 4.5 mm long, with few hairs inside, without enations; abaxial lobes c. 1 mm long; wings c. 0.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly obovate, c. 0.5 mm long. Ovules few. Fruit ellipsoidal, 4.5 mm long, tardily separating. Seeds elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, verrucose, granulose, pale yellow-brown.