Perennial to 50 cm tall, glabrous or glandular-hairy; stout stock. Leaves mostly basal, narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, dentate to entire, thick; lamina 3-15 cm long, 4-10 mm wide. Flowers in thyrses to 20 cm long; bracts linear, to 5 mm long; peduncle to c. 4 cm long; bracteoles linear, 1-3 mm long; pedicel 1-2 mm long. Sepals narrowly ovate, 1-2 mm long. Corolla 4-8 mm long; lobes ±equal, 2-4 mm long; wings c. 0.5 mm wide. Ovary with septum more than 1/2 its length; ovules 12-40; style with simple and glandular hairs. Fruit a capsule, ±globular, 4-5 mm long. Seeds ellipsoidal to orbicular, c. 0.5 mm diam.
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