Erect or ascending herb to 20 cm tall, whitish tomentose, with stellate and multicellular hairs, felted. Leaves crowded basally, narrowing basally, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, entire or sinuate, hairy on both surfaces; lamina 4-9 cm long, 4-18 mm wide. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; peduncle to 5 cm long; bracteoles linear, c. 2 mm long; pedicel to 4 cm long, not articulate. Sepals narrowly oblong, 3.5 cm long. Corolla 15 mm long, ±glabrous inside, without enations, ±auriculate; abaxial lobes 5-6 mm long; wings c. 2.5 mm wide. Indusium broadly elliptic, folded. Ovules 28-30. Fruit ovoid, c. 10 mm long; valves separated to midmark, bifid. Seeds elliptic, 2 mm long, aculeate, yellow.
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