Erect, annual herb 8-50 cm tall, often sparingly branched. Stems densely viscid-glandular; pubescence of dense, short stipitate glands. Leaves 3-foliolate, viscid-glandular, petiolate; petioles 2-20 mm long; leaflets linear to linear-lanceolate, 1-2.2 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm broad, blunt at the apex, cuneate at the base. Inflorescence a lax, few-flowered terminal raceme, not markedly elongating in fruit; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, sessile, occasionally unifoliolate, glandular; pedicels 1-1.5 cm long, glandular-puberulous. Sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, acuminate, glandular. Petals yellow, obovate, 4-8 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base. Stamens 10, all fertile, subequal, not exceeding the petals; anthers 1.5 mm long; Ovary 3 mm long, densely glandular-puberulous, on a very short gynophore; style 1 mm long; stigma capitate. Capsule erect or ascending, narrowly oblong, 2-4 cm long, about 4 mm broad; gynophore 0-1 mm long; style 1-2 mm long; valves remain attached to the replum in the lower half at dehiscence, chartaceous, glandular-puberulous, nerves anastomosing. Seeds brown, subglobose, about 1 mm in diameter, surface finely reticulate-foveolate.
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Erect annual, 80-500 mm tall, with viscid glandular stems. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-lanceolate 10-22 x 1.5-3.5 mm. Flowers in a sparse raceme, petals upturned, wedge-shaped at base, yellow, turning bluish when dry, fertile stamens 8-10. Fruit a narrowly oblong capsule, 20-40 x ± 4 mm.
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