Plants biennial or perennial, bushlike, perennials with subterranean caudices. Stems multiple, erect, straight; branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, straight; hairy. Leaves: blade 15–61 × 8–28.5 mm, widest intersinus distance 6–23.8 mm; proximal obovate, ovate, or broadly elliptic, margins usually dentate to serrate, rarely entire, teeth (0–)6–20, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.4–4 mm; distal deltate to cordate, base clasping, margins usually dentate, rarely entire, teeth (0–)6–12, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.5–2 mm; abaxial surface with complex grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with needlelike trichomes, both surfaces whitish, densely hairy. Bracts: margins entire. Flowers: petals golden yellow, 9.2–13.2 × 2.8–5 mm, apex rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 6–10.6 × 1.3–2.6 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers twisted or straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 6–8.1 mm. Capsules cup-shaped, 5–9.5 × 6–8.6 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged. Seeds: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 11–13 per cell. 2n = 36.
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