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Perennial herb, up to 0.3 m high; fairly dense to sparse stellately hairy. Stems erect. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade narrowly obovate to oblong. Flowers: in 2-flowered cymes borne towards ends of branches with supporting leaves diminishing in size near apices of branches; bracts with margins palmatifid, segments linear; calyx almost globose with short lobes; petals yellow; Oct.-Mar.
Perennial herb, up to 300 mm tall, with fairly dense to sparse stellate hairs. Leaves narrowly obovate to oblong. Stipules often deeply cut, looking like leaves arranged in a whorl. Inflorescences: 2-flowered cymes borne towards ends of branches with supporting leaves diminishing in size near apex of branches. Calyx almost globose with short lobes. Flowers yellow.
Leaf-lamina up to 4 × 1·8 cm., oblong to obovate-oblong, apex obtuse, margin dentate or crenate or subentire, base broadly cuneate, sparsely and softly pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 3 mm. long; stipules c. 1 × 0·3 cm., leafy, palmately 2–4-partite with lanceolate segments or entire and lanceolate.
Flowers usually in pairs, on a common peduncle in the upper axils; peduncle up to 1·5 cm. long, densely pilose; pedicels similar, up to 0·7 cm. long; bracts palmatifid with linear segments, densely pilose.
Petals c. 1·0 × 0·3 cm., yellow, just exserted, narrowly oblong-spathulate, glandular-pubescent, margins inrolled in the lower 1/3.
Calyx up to 1·2 cm. in diam., depressed-globose, villous, inflated, with deltoid teeth c. 3 mm. long.
Stamens with cruciform-tuberculate pilose filaments c. 4 mm. long; anthers c. 3·5 mm. long, pilose.
Stellately pilose shrublet with annual stems up to c. 30 cm. tall arising from a woody rootstock.
Ovary subglobose, densely pubescent; styles 4 mm. long, puberulous at the base.
Seeds almost black, c. 2 × 1·5 mm., compressed, hemispherical-reniform.
Calyx inflated and persistent in fruit, enclosing the ripe capsule.
Capsule 6–7 mm. in diam., globose, pubescent.
