Linariopsis

Suffrutices with thick, cylindric to fusiform rootstock and prostrate to ascending, villose-pubescent branches. Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic, subsessile to shortly petiolate, margin ciliate, repand to remotely dentate, with small scales, especially on lower surface. Flowers solitary, axillary; bracts acicular, with stipitate extrafloral nectaries in axils of bracts. Calyx 5-partite, much shorter than corolla tube; segments linear-lanceolate. Corolla: tube narrow at base, widening gradually, without distinct basal sac; anterior lobe enlarged, forming a distinct lower lip; dark violet. Stamens didynamous; staminode +/- absent; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, without apical gland; thecae parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc small, annular. Ovary 2-locular, without indication of false septa; ovule 1 per locule, erect, basal; style filiform; stigma shortly bifid. Fruit nut-like, reminiscent of a walnut, broadly oblong in outline to subovoid, tuberculate and with a weak median rib, indehiscent or very tardily apically dehiscent, +/- 1-locular due to reduction of septum. Seeds 2, obovate, somewhat compressed, smooth, sometimes with narrowly winged margin.