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Ovary 3·5–5 mm. long, hairy; styles 10 mm. long and subequalling the longest stamens in the longistylous flowers or 3 mm. long and shorter than the shortest stamens in the brevistylous flowers.
Stem branched to simple with a double indumentum of soft, whitish, shining hairs and of more or less dense, yellowish, spreading, up to 1 mm. long setae with swollen, blackish base.
Flowers 2–5(7) per raceme, heterostylous or homostylous; peduncles 2–10 cm. long; pedicels 3–6 mm. long, not deflexed in fruit; peduncles and pedicels hairy like the stem.
Filaments of the longest stamens (7)9–13 mm. long, those of the shorter ones 5·5–10 mm. long; anthers c. 2·3 mm. long.
Capsule 3–6 cm. long, erect on straight pedicels, shortly and patently hairy; beak up to 6 mm. long.
Calyx 10–15·5 mm., patently hairy and with weak setae; lobes 2·5–5 mm. long, oblong, subobtuse.
Petals up to 23 × 12·5 mm., obovate-cuneate, yellow to orange.
Annual, erect herb up to 40 cm. high.
Seeds 3–4 × 1 mm.
