Annual herb, up to 0.25 m high. Leaves up to 12 x 10 mm, ovate, crowded near base, upper ones smaller and further apart. Flowers in few-to many-flowered cymes, lax; pedicels long, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate; keeled or narrowly winged. Corolla yellow; tube 3.5-6.0 mm. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with 3 stipitate glands. Style with swelling near base; stigma clavate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.