Plants annual, without caudices or tubers. Stems erect, to 70 cm. Leaves: petiole to 25 mm (proximal leaves), absent (distal leaves); blade usually lanceolate to hastate, rarely elliptic, basally lobed, sometime with 2 pairs of lobes, or unlobed, to 14 × 4.5 cm, base obliquely obtuse to acute, margins shallowly serrate, apex acute. Pedicels (fruiting) 0.5–0.8 × 1–2 mm (often appearing absent because thick and continuous with capsule). Flowers: petals orange, 5–7 × 2.3–4 mm, apex cuspidate, hairy on apex and abaxially near apex; stamens 8–12, 4–5.3 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost narrowly spatulate, inner filiform; styles 3.8–5.5 mm. Capsules clavate or funnelform, 12–27 × 3–5 mm, base tapering gradually, capsule and pedicel not well-differentiated. Seeds 8–12 per capsule, pyriform, without transverse folds. 2n = 20.
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