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An annual plant. It has many branches. It is spreading and succulent. It grows 60 cm tall. It can cover an area one metre across. The roots are the colour of turmeric. The leaves are simple and opposite. They are oval. They are 1-5 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They have coarse teeth. The flowers are about 2 cm across. The fruit are 1-1.8 cm long and narrow at the base and have spreading spines at the other end. There are 1 or 2 seeds in each section. The seeds are oblong.
Leaves petiolate; lamina oblong to obovate, sometimes elliptic, subsucculent; 1.5–5 cm. long, 0.8–3.5 cm. broad, coarsely dentate, particularly in the upper half, sometimes entire; rounded or truncate at the apex.
Flowers yellow; corolla tube 27–2.5 cm. long; limb 1.5–2 cm. in diam., glabrescent or with a few hairs in the throat; lobes subcircular.
Fruit 1–2 cm. long, 0.6–1 cm. broad (excl. the spines), rugose or tuberculate on the faces.
Erect, spreading or subprostrate, sparsely glandular herb, 1-2 1/2 ft. high
Seeds narrowly oblong in outline, 6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad.
Erect or ascending, sparsely glandular, 12–75 cm. high.
A saline soil indicator in sand or limestone
Petiole 5–35 mm. long.
