Stylopodium low-conical; styles 1 mm. long, only slightly clubbed at the apex, slightly divergent and becoming reflexed with maturity.
Sinuous, wiry, glabrous perennial or biennial herb up to 45 cm., with a large elongate or subglobular taproot.
Stem leaves much reduced to prominently toothed appendages, the uppermost to sheathing bases alone.
Carpophore probably 2-cleft (other structural details of fruit not known in mature state).
Lamina emarginate to cordate at the base, apex rounded, margin dentate to denticulate.
Basal leaves with petioles up to 5 cm., with large membranous sheathing bases.
Fruit 3 × 1·5 mm., ovoid, somewhat laterally compressed, ribs filiform.
Calyx teeth obsolete; petals distinctly yellow, with incurved apices.
Stems terete, with few grooves.