Leaves opposite, petiolate; lamina subsucculent, circular to ovate, slightly lobed or sinuate; up to 7 cm. long and broad, petiole 2.5–7 cm. long; Flowers solitary, yellow-green, yellow, cream or white, with unpleasant odour; corolla tube (spur excluded) 30–40 mm. long, limb up to 50 mm. in diam., spur up to 30 mm. long and 20 mm. wide.
Annual or sometimes biennial herb, 0.30-0.75 m high. Leaves subsucculent, circular to ovate, slightly lobed or sinuate, petiolate. Flowers solitary. Corolla spurred. Fruit rotund to circular in lateral view, with 4 wings. Flowers yellow-green, yellow, cream or white.
Fruit rotund to circular in lateral view, up to 60 mm. long and 50 mm. broad, often suffused with purple.
Seeds dark brown, obovate in outline, c. 6 mm. long and 4 mm. broad; testa with reticulate sculpturing.
Erect annual (sometimes biennial) herb with spreading branches, 30–75 cm. tall.