Erect or ascending, biennial herb, 0.05-0.25 m high; base branched, simple or branched above. Leaves 13 x 15 mm, cordate, lower sometimes subrosulate. Flowers in dense, few-to many-flowered corymbs, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate. Corolla yellow; tube 5.5-7.5 mm long, clawed. Stamens inserted in or up to 1 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with round apical glands. Style with large swelling below middle; stigma clavate or capitate-clavate, bilobed. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a capsule.
Herb, up to 250 mm high. Stems erect or decumbent. Leaves in many pairs scattered along stems; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, up to 13 x 15 mm. Flowers: in dense, corymbose, few-to many-flowered cymes; filaments inserted in or up to 1 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with a small apical and sometimes 2 minute basal glands; style with large swelling below middle; corolla with tube 5.5-7.5 mm, keel wing 0.75-1.50 mm broad, yellow; Jan.