Ascending herb, without well-defined rosette, with glandular and simple hairs; stems to 20 cm long. Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, tapering towards base, dentate, with lamina 1.5-3.5 cm long, 8-13 mm wide; upper leaves narrower. Flowers in racemes to 15 cm long; bracts leaf-like; pedicel 8-15 mm long, glandular-hairy, not articulate; bracteoles absent. Sepals lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 3.5 mm long. Corolla 8-12 mm long, with few hairs inside, without enations; abaxial lobes 2-3 mm long; wings c. 1 mm wide. Style 3-fid. Median indusium almost sessile, oblong, c. 0.5 mm long, lateral ones smaller. Ovules 8. Fruit ovoid, c. 4 mm diam.; valves not dividing to base, not gaping. Seeds elliptic, 2.5 mm long, colliculate, matt, greyish yellow.