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An erect plant. It grows 1.25 m tall. The stems branch near the base. They become woody near the base. The plant is hairy. The leaves are broadly oval and can have 3 shallow lobes. The leaves are 4-10 cm long. They are dark green above and paler underneath. There are shallow teeth along the edge. The flowers are yellow to orange and 2 cm across. They occur as 3-4 together in the axils of the upper leaves. The fruit has 8 sections. They spread out with long awns like spikes.
Leaf-lamina 4–10 (15) × 3–9 (13) cm., broadly ovate-cordate to suborbicular-cordate, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, apex acuminate, margin usually shallowly but distinctly and regularly serrate or crenate with minutely apiculate serrations, upper surface dark green, finely and somewhat scabridly stellate-pubescent, lower surface slightly paler, similarly hairy; petiole longitudinally sulcate, as long as or shorter than the corresponding blade.
Suffrutex up to c. 1·25 m. tall, erect or occasionally spreading (usually after having been grazed), usually branched from the base, with a short dense stellate usually somewhat rough pubescence and usually with additional ± sparse long patent hairs and often glandular-viscid when young; stems terete, firm, green or yellowish-green, woody at the base, ultimately with a thin greyish bark.
Flowers yellow to orange, in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncle c. 4 cm. long, erect-patent, 2–4-flowered at the apex; pedicels c. 2 cm. long, articulated in the upper 6 mm. (sometimes a solitary pedicel in the same axil as the peduncle but shorter than the latter).
Calyx c. 8–12 mm. (accrescent to c. 9 × 12 mm. in fruit), shallowly cupular, lobes 4·5 mm. long, triangular or ovate-lanceolate, usually distinctly acuminate into a sulcate acumen.
Herb or shrub, 1.25 m high. Leaves usually 3-lobed. Pedicels 2-4-nate on common peduncle. Mericarps 10, with long subulate spreading or recurved awns. Flowers yellow to orange.
Mericarps c. 9 × 3 × 2–2·5 mm., 2–3-seeded, ultimately light brown, ± radiate-spreading, pungently long-awned, with subulate curved outwardly spreading awns.
Petals 5–7 mm. long, ciliate at the base and sometimes also at the apex.
Somewhat glandular-tomentose and with spreading hairs
Seeds c. 2 × 2 mm., dark brown, rugulose-papillose.
Staminal tube densely stellate-hairy.
An erect branching perennial
Fruit of about 8 mericarps.
Flowers yellow or whitish
Carpels 2–3-seeded.
Leaves long-stalked
