Perennial herb with a persistent and often stout taproot; pilose or occasionally glabrous. Leaves basal, ascending or spreading, oblanceolate to narrow-oblong, mostly 4–9 cm long, 0.4–1.2 cm wide; 1–5 veined, pubescent or occasionally glabrous, margins toothed or + entire, with short white or pale brown hairs in the leaf axil. Scapes mostly 3–30 cm long; pubescent with stiff spreading or antrorse hairs, spike mostly 1–6 cm long. Bracts concave, ovate, 1–1.8 mm long, pubescent on the thickened keel that is c. 1/2 of the width.. Sepals subequal, oblong-elliptic, 2.2–3 mm long; keel pilose, 1/4 to 1/2 the sepal breadth. Corolla lobes circular, 1.3–1.5 mm long. Ovary bilocular, one loculus with 2 ovules, the other with 3. Capsule ovoid, 2.8–3.5 mm long. obtuse but with the stylar base persisting as a short mucro. Seeds up to 5, elliptic, 1–1.5 mm long, brown with a thin mucilaginous layer.
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