Perennials; (base sometimes woody); (glaucous), pubescent or glabrous. Stems erect to ascending, usually unbranched, rarely branched (few) proximally, 1.5-4.5 dm, (sparsely pubescent). Basal leaves (withered by flowering), similar to cauline. Cauline leaves petiole 1.5-3 cm; blade (fleshy), lanceolate to ovate in outline, 4-7.5(-9.5) cm (smaller distally), margins (proximalmost) often 2-pinnatifid, or (distal) pinnatifid or pinnatisect, (surfaces sparsely pubescent, trichomes crisped). Racemes dense. Fruiting pedicels horizontal to divaricate-ascending, 5-10 mm, (sparsely pubescent). Flowers: sepals linear, 6.5-10 mm, glabrous; petals yellow-orange, oblong or narrowly so, 5-12 × 0.8-2 mm, claw (nearly linear), 5-7 mm, distinctly wider at base, pubescent inside; filaments 10-15 mm, glabrous; anthers 3-4 mm; gynophore 4-11 mm, sparsely to densely pubescent. Fruits divaricate, tortuous, (torulose), terete, 2.5-4.6 cm × 1.5-2 mm; ovules 24-34 per ovary; style 0.02-0.4 mm. Seeds oblong, 2.2-2.6 × 0.9-1.2 mm. 2n = 28.
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