Stiff, erect perennial, with many striate stems, to 45 cm tall, with long, stiff, simple hairs at 90° or curved, and minute, glandular hairs. Leaves ±sessile or shortly petiolate, linear to oblanceolate, sometimes dentate; lamina 0.5-8 cm long, 1-10 mm wide. Flowers in distant spikes or thyrses to 15 cm long; bracts leaf-like but smaller; peduncle to 5 mm long; bracteoles linear, 3.5-5 mm long. Sepals triangular, 1 mm long, free. Corolla 7-17 mm long, with not appressed, yellowish brown, simple and glandular hairs outside, bearded inside, white to lilac; barbulae simple; wings 1.5 mm wide. Indusium c. 2 mm wide, glabrous or with few long hairs at base. Fruit globular, c. 3 mm diam., 5-ribbed, pubescent.
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