Shrub to 1.5 m tall, lacking lignotubers. Branches dense; young branches pilose. Leaves crowded; lamina 20-30 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, very narrowly elliptic to cuneate, revolute, apiculate, rarely with irregular, mucronate lobes, pilose basally, otherwise glabrous. Conflorescence 5-7-flowered; bracts stiff; inner bracts reaching suture of flower; bracts with hairs at apex only. Flowers zygomorphic, crowded, enclosed by bracts. Perianth 30-40 mm long, bright yellow, dilated near middle, mostly glabrous; adaxial suture deepest. Hypogynous glands fused; margin irregular. Style pilose. Fruit 6-7 mm long, with a single beak at stylar end of suture and 2 horns at opposite end; sides smooth or slightly uneven. Seeds 2, circular, c. 5 mm diam., with a narrow, annular wing.
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