Apparently perennial herb, c. 10 cm high (Australian specimens somewhat larger). Leaves 3½-5 by 1-1.5 cm, fleshy, glabrous (white-bearded in the axils); margin entire to faintly sinuate, sometimes with a few small teeth; apex rounded. Cymes 2-6, ascending, 7-12 cm long, laxly branched, few-flowered, mainly towards the apex with some scattered, reverse, appressed short hairs; bracts spathulate, up to 5 by 1.5 mm. Flowers 8-9 mm long. Sepals 3, free, ovate, 5 by 2 mm, acute, outside glabrous, inside minutely tomentose towards the apex. Corolla adnate to the lower half of the ovary, 8 mm long, light-yellow, outside in the lower half sparsely pubescent, dorsally slit up to c. 1.5 mm from the base, dorsal and lateral petals connate for 3.5 mm, lateral ones and ventral one for 6 mm, ventral lobe slightly longer, dorsal ones slightly shorter than lateral ones, all with broad membranous wings, those at both sides of the dorsal slit being longer than the other ones. Stamens 3 mm long. Ovary 1.5-2 mm long, halfway connate with the corolla, glabrous, with c. 7 ± basal ovules; style 3.5 mm long, with some scattered short h?„irs; indusium membranous, ciliate, in the basal part adnate to the semi-discoid, crenulate stigma which is 1.5-2 mm in diam. Capsules 3 mm, the upper half opening by 4 valves. Seeds 2-3, elliptic, c. 2 mm long, margined.
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Perennial herb, variously hairy; stock short; scapes prostrate or decumbent, to 25 cm long. Leaves oblanceolate, entire or dentate; lamina to 10 cm long, to 25 mm wide. Bracteoles free, to 12 mm long. Adaxial sepal lanceolate to oblong, ±cordate, 4-6 mm long. Corolla 6-11 mm long, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, with enations, yellow with purplish markings; wings short, c. 1 mm wide. Ovary with septum 1/2 as long as locule; ovules 18-25; indusium semi-orbicular, c. 1 mm wide. Capsule ovoid. Seeds orbicular, 1.5 mm diam., punctate.
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