Erect subshrub to 50 cm tall, glabrous. Leaves sessile, acute, linear to narrowly oblong, usually entire; lamina 7-20 mm long, less than 2 mm wide. Flowers in interrupted spikes to 15 cm; bracts leaf-like; bracteoles linear, 5-7 mm long, c. 1/3-1/2 length of flower. Sepals to 1 mm long, connate. Corolla 14-17 mm long, glabrous outside, densely bearded inside, yellowish to bluish pink sometimes with a yellow throat; barbulae few, simple; wings to 0.4 mm wide. Ovary 2-locular; indusium to 2 mm long, dense purple beard exceeding lips. Fruit ovoid, 4-5 mm long, rugose, pubescent.
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