Annual herb, 0.05-0.25 m high; slender or stout. Leaves 2-12 x 2-10 mm, ovate to suborbicular, lower leaves crowded. Flowers in a few cymes or corymbs, lax or subdense, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate to oblong, winged. Corolla yellow; tube 2.50-4.75 mm long. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with stipitate apical glands. Style with swelling confluent with stigma; stigma ligulate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.
Annual to 25 cm. Leaves ovate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes winged, stamens inserted in sinuses, style swelling confluent with stigma.