Low suffrutex much branched at the base, lower branches straggling; branches with short glandular hairs, gland-tipped hairs and, sometimes, short stellate hairs also present. Stipules leaf-like, shorter than the leaves, sessile, simple or lobed to the base, lobes linear, 5-9 mm long, entire, pubescent with fine, mostly gland-tipped hairs, subglabrescent. Leaves shortly petioled; blade, lanceolate linear-lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, somewhat unevenly lobed on the margins, pubescent with mostly gland tipped hairs especially along the margins, 7-20 mm long; petiole up to 5 mm long, pubescent with gland-tipped hairs. Inflorescence of 2-flowered cymes, terminal on the branches (some appearing opposite the upper leaves as the main branch turns aside); peduncles long, 2-7 cm long, slender pubescent with gland-tipped hairs; pedicels short, 1.5-5 mm long; bracteoles broad concealing the pedicels, palmately or pedately lobed 5-10 mm long, minutely glandular pubescent but villose on the margins. Calyx about 8 mm long, urceolate to turbinate, lobed to beyond the middle, lobes narrowly oblong, sinuses narrow, minutely glandular pubescent but villose along the margins without and within. Petals yellow, tightly twisted giving the flowers a narrow appearance, about 12 mm long, oblong-obovate, narrowing gradually to a short claw with narrowly infolded margins microscopically pubescent below. Stamens about 7.5 mm long, filaments dilated above the middle, lobes villous; anthers obscurely ciliate. Ovary about 3.5 mm long, densely stellate with short hairs; stipe 0.75 mm long; styles 9.5 mm long. Capsule oblong at maturity, about 10 mm long, subdensely pubescent with short stellate hairs glabrescent, perianth persisting at base.
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