Decumbent to ascending herb to 40 cm tall, hispid, with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves sessile, linear to oblanceolate, entire or dentate; lamina 2–10 cm long, 2–10 mm wide. Flowers in thyrses or racemes to 30 cm long; bracts leafy; peduncle to 10 cm long; bracteoles linear, to 2.5 cm long, entire, exceeding ovary and usually sepals. Sepals linear, 5 mm long, free. Corolla 1.5–2.5 cm long, hispid outside with hairs at 90°, usually bearded in throat, pale violet to purple; barbulae simple or clavate; wings 1–3 mm wide, not striate. Indusium 2.5–3 mm wide, short white beard above. Fruit ellipsoidal, c. 5 mm long, striate-rugose, hairy.
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