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Rounded, many-stemmed shrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves bifoliolate with flat petioles, petioles 3-10 mm long; leaflets obovate, 8-17 mm long, base oblique, apex obtuse. Flowers: solitary, axillary; nectar disc fleshy, papillate, 10-angled; petals suborbicular or widely 8-11 mm long, base with a short claw, apex rounded, emarginate, pale yellow with reddish brown, rhombic markings at base; Oct.-May. Fruit a subspheroid, 5-winged capsule, 6-7 mm long; wings reticulate, apex and base usually retuse.
Erect shrublet, up to 0.8 m tall. Leaves bifoliolate, petioles short, flat, leaflets asymmetrical, obovate, glaucous and waxy. Flowers lime-yellow. Fruit oblong, 5-angled with 5 wings, wings 2 mm wide. Mainly Sept.
