Herb, annual, the stems erect, simple or branched, puberulous and hirsute-hispid with long, spreading, brownish hairs, these simple and/or stellate. Leaves very variable, the petiole to 8 mm long, the upper leaves sometimes almost sessile; blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, sometimes lanceolate-linear to linear, acute to sometimes rounded at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, serrate to crenate-serrate at the margins, sometimes entire-margined or almost so, to 4 cm long and 1.4 cm wide, usually densely stellate-pubescent on both sides, the hairs many-rayed and with one of the rays often elongated and stiff. Flowers solitary, homostylous, the pedicels slender, to 1.5 cm long, elongated in fruit, with the same indumentum as the stem, ebracteolate; hypanthium ca 2 mm long; sepals narrowly triangular, ca 4 mm long, usually densely stellate-puberulous; petals obovate, cuneate at the base, ca 8 mm long, yellow or orange; corona less than 0.5 mm long; filaments ca 3.25 mm long, glabrous; anthers ca 1.25 mm long, the apex recurved at anthesis; ovary ovoid, ca 2 mm long and 1.25 mm wide, densely appressed-hirsute; styles ca 2.25 mm long, glabrous. Capsules ovoid to globose, to 7 mm long, the valves smooth, appressed-hirsute and with simple hairs; seeds almost straight, oblong-obovoid, ca 1.5-2 mm long, the testa foveolate-striate to alveolate.
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