Plants annual, without caudices or tubers. Stems erect, to 25 cm. Leaves: petiole to 12 mm (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves); blade usually ovate to hastate, or smallest distal elliptic or lanceolate, basally lobed or unlobed, to 4.5 × 3.5 cm, base cuneate or obtuse to truncate, margins serrate, apex acute. Pedicels (fruiting) 1–3 × 2 mm. Flowers: petals orange, 5–8 × 3–5 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy abaxially at apex; stamens 10–20, 5–8 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform; style 3–5 mm. Capsules subcylindric to clavate, 12–25 × 3–5 mm, base tapering gradually, capsule and pedicel not well-differentiated. Seeds (7–)8–10(–12) per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds. 2n = 20, 40.
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