Plants biennial, candelabra-form. Stems solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy. Leaves: blade 19–82 × 4.8–22.1 mm, widest intersinus distance 2.7–6.7 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 10–22, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1–5.5 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins pinnate, lobes 8–14, usually perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.8–7 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and complex grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. Bracts: margins entire or toothed. Flowers: petals golden yellow, 7.6–12.3 × 2–3.8 mm, apex usually acute, occasionally rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 6.4–11.8 × 1.1–2.7 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 5.6–7.8 mm. Capsules cylindric, 10.8–20 × 5.3–7.6 mm, length more than 2 times diam., base tapering, not longitudinally ridged. Seeds: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–5 per cell. 2n = 22.
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The flowers are bright yellow and star shaped. The seed capsule is bullet shaped.
Hillside slopes, sandy and clayey soils; at elevations from 1,100-2,500 metres
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