Undershrub with several to many slender, more or less erect branches from a woody base; branches about 7 to 25 cm tall, slender, more or less angled and ridged, sparsely scabrid. Leaves very variable in size and lobing, alternate, approximate or sometimes opposite, sessile or petioled, irregularly and pinnately 3-to 5-lobed or simple, 4-18 mm long, 3-6 mm broad, the segments acute, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, margins scabrid, inrolled, surface fairly sparsely gland-pitted. Inflorescence a reduced cyme, monochasial, flowers terminal, appearing lateral when overtopped by a secondary branch which takes the place of the main axis. Calyx persistent but not accrescent, 5-10 mm long; tube about 2 mm long; lobes 10-15, narrowly linear, entire or occasionally lobed, unequal in length and up to 1 mm broad, acute, scabrid on the margins. Corolla yellow (sometimes with red infusion in parts ?); tube about 3 mm long, infundibuliform; lobes about 1 cm long and 4.5 mm broad, oblong, slightly narrowed to the apex, or rounded with a mucro. Stamens inserted on the tubular portion of the corolla tube, filaments pilose at base, free for about 3 mm., anthers about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, sub-basifixed, erect, minutely apiculate. Ovary 2-lobed, style about 6-8 mm long (appears to be red sometimes), stigma terminal, broadly capitate, obscurely bilobed. Fruit on a cernuous pedicel, a bilocular capsule, occasionally only 1 coccus develops, dehiscing circumscissilely when ripe, coat parchment-like; seeds 1-4 in each coccus, 6-9 mm long, and 4-6 mm broad, outer skin reticulated.
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