Subshrubs procumbent, to 1 m. Stems slender, with simple pilose hairs, stiffly stellate hairs, and sometimes small simple multicellular hairs. Stipule filiform, 2-3 mm, sparsely pilose; petiole 1-3 cm, with conspicuous long simple hairs; leaf blade broadly ovate, (1-)2-5 × 1.8-4.5 cm, both surfaces stellate puberulent and ± apressed pilose, base cordate, margin crenate or dentate, apex acuminate. Flowers usually solitary, axillary, often on leafy, racemelike, axillary shoots. Pedicel slender, 1.5-4 cm, articulate on distal part, sparsely stellate and with long hairs. Calyx cup-shaped, 4-6 mm, sparsely pilose with long hairs, lobes 2-3 mm, acute. Corolla yellow, 8-9 mm in diam. Filament tube ca. 2 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Schizocarp nearly globose, ca. 3 mm in diam.; mericarps 5, ovoid-tetrahedral, ca. 2.5 mm, smooth, glabrous or sparsely minutely hairy at apex, apex not beaked, not awned. Fl. Jul-Feb.
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A tall herb or small shrub. It grows 1 m tall. The stems are slender and have small hairs. The leaf stalk is 1-3 cm long. The leaf blade is broadly oval and 2-5 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. There are hairs on both sides. The base is wedge shaped and there are teeth along the edge. The flowers usually occur singly in the axils of leaves.
Scrub, grassy roadsides in southern China. Uncultivated land and as undergrowth in forest scrub to elevations of 1,800 metres in Nepal.
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A tropical plant. It is common throughout India. In Nepal it grows between 400-1,800 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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