Perennial herb, branching from base, up to 400 mm tall, with a carrot-like rootstock, sap milky. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 60-150 x 3-6 mm, margins undulate. Flowers 3-5 in extra-axillary or terminal clusters, on a peduncle up to 20 mm long, pedicels 11-18 mm long. Corolla rotate and lobed to base, ± 15 mm diam., with spreading, ± lanceolate, 6 x 3 mm, glabrous lobes. Corona of 5 ovate, ascending, swollen lobes, arising from base of gynostegium, without keels on either surface, gynostegium slightly taller than broad. Fruit broadly spindle-shaped, beaked, covered with soft processes, glabrous.
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