Herb, glabrous to pubescent; stock short; scapes ascending, to 40 cm tall. Leaves basal, linear to spathulate, dentate to almost entire; lamina 5-20 cm long, 5-25 mm wide. Bracteoles free; lower ones oblong to linear-deltoid, to 19 mm long. Adaxial sepal deltoid to ovate, 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla 8-12 mm long, pubescent outside, without enations, yellow-orange, red-brown in throat; wings ±to base of adaxial lobes, c. 2 mm wide. Ovary with septum c. 1/2 as long as locule; ovules c. 6; indusium broadly ovate, c. 2 mm wide. Seeds punctate, with thick mucilaginous rim.