Subshrubs, erect, sometimes decumbent, 1 m, sometimes branching near base and in inflorescence. Stems sparsely setose, hairs spreading, glabrescent, rarely also with few appressed, stellate hairs. Leaves: stipules linear, to 12 × 1 mm, setose; petiole 1/2–1 times blade length, setose; blade ovate, unlobed, to 10 × 6 cm, gradually reduced and narrower upward, apex acuminate, surfaces strigose and stellate-hairy. Inflorescences flowers solitary or paired. Pedicels 0.5–2.5 cm, setose throughout, distally glandular-hairy, sometimes distally stellate-hairy also. Flowers: calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ovate, apex acuminate, setose, glandular and stellate-hairy; petals 4–6 mm, glabrous; staminal column 2–3 mm, glabrous to setose; styles 5-branched. Schizocarps straw colored at maturity, 5–6 mm diam., stellate-hairy; mericarps 5, spur 2–3 mm. Seeds 2–3 mm. 2n = 30.
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