Decumbent to prostrate herb, whitish villous, sometimes felted with stellate, simple and multicellular hairs; stems to 15 cm long. Leaves mostly basal, narrowly elliptic to obovate, narrowing abruptly at base, dentate, hairy on both surfaces; lamina 4-7 cm long, 10-20 mm wide. Flowers in racemes to 8 cm long; bracts leaf-like; peduncle 10-30 mm long; bracteoles linear, c. 4 mm long; pedicel 10-20 mm long, not articulate. Sepals linear, 4-5 mm long. Corolla c. 18 mm long, few hairs inside, without enations, indistinctly auriculate; abaxial lobes 8-9 mm long; wings c. 2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly ovate, folded. Ovules c. 30. Fruit ovoid, c. 13 mm long; valves separated to midmark, shortly bifid. Seeds elliptic, c. 2 mm long, aculeate, yellowish.
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