Plants 9–41 cm high; branches developing at ground-level, usually from a perennating stock, or sometimes a little above ground; glandular hairs absent from branches, leaves, rachis, bracts and calyces, or present in lower parts of plant, sometimes leaves, bracts and calyces scabrous from rigid short coarse eglandular hairs. Upper leaves 5.9–14 mm long, with 1–4 pairs of teeth, base rounded-cuneate to narrowly cuneate. Calyx externally with minute (to c. 0.05 mm long) eglandular hairs; corollas with incidence of yellow spot behind lowest lobe unknown, the lower lobes usually emarginate, rarely shallowly emarginate to ruminate-obtuse, externally with eglandular and sometimes also glandular hairs; anthers 1.4–1.9 mm long, with rear awns 0.15–0.35 mm long. Seeds 0.35–0.8 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.