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A shrub. It is slightly woody. It grows 2 m high. It usually has many branches. It has a soft grey covering of hairs. The leaf blade is 18 cm long by 16 cm wide. It is widely oval with a long pointed tip. The flowers occur singly and are bright yellow. They are on long stalks. The petals are 14 mm long. The fruit are 15 mm long by 20 mm wide. They are black and round.
Soft-wooded shrub up to c. 1·5 m. tall, usually much branched, with a short greyish-drab soft velvety indumentum and sometimes with additional long soft patent hairs; stems stoutish, tough when young, ultimately woody and glabrescent.
Soft-wooded shrub, 1.5 m high. Mericarps numerous, ultimately black and stellately spreading, with long apical awn at least one-third of total length of mericarp. Flowers yellow, sometimes with reddish centre or red veins.
Calyx campanulate to cupular, 10–18 mm. long and 8–10 mm. in diam.; lobes 6–12 × 3–6 mm., ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate-linear or narrowly triangular-lanceolate, gradually acuminate or attenuate.
Mericarps 25–40, 2–3-seeded, ultimately glabrescent, black, produced at the apex into a long, pointed acumen about 1/3 of the total length of the mericarp.
Petals 14–20 mm. long, yellow, sometimes reddish at the base inside and/or with reddish veins in the basal portion.
Flowers axillary on main branches and on short axillary shoots; pedicels often exceeding the petioles.
Fruit c. 15 × 20–25 mm., stellate-pubescent, but the mericarps ultimately stellately spreading.
A whitish-downy perennial, 3–5 ft. high
Staminal tube stellate-hairy.
Seeds papillose-verruculose.
Flowers yellow or orange.
