Plants wandlike or candelabra-form, 10–40(–50) cm. Basal leaves persisting; petiole present or absent; blade elliptic to linear, margins usually dentate, sinuses extending less than 1/4 to midvein, or entire, rarely deeply lobed. Cauline leaves: petiole present or absent (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves); blade elliptic to linear (proximal leaves), orbiculate to linear (distal leaves), to 10 cm, margins usually dentate, sinuses extending less than 1/4 to midvein, or entire, rarely deeply lobed. Bracts green, orbiculate to ovate, 2.1–6.5 × 1.1–3 mm, width 1/3–7/8 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3-lobed or entire. Flowers: sepals 1–3.5 mm; petals usually yellow, rarely orange, proximally, yellow distally, 2–6(–8) mm, apex rounded; stamens 20–40, 2–4.5 mm, filaments monomorphic, filiform, unlobed; styles 2–3.5(–5) mm. Capsules narrow-cylindric, 7–30 × 1–2.5 mm, axillary curved to 30° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed. Seeds 10–20, in 1 row distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, triangular prisms, surface ± smooth under 10× magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent; seed coat cell outer periclinal wall flat. 2n = 18, 36, 72.
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