Leaf-lamina up to 6 × 3 cm., elliptic, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, apex subacute or rounded, margin serrate or crenate-serrate, base sub-cordate or rounded or broadly cuneate, both surfaces sparsely stellate-pilose with some simple hairs, a little more densely so below, nerves rather raised beneath; petiole up to 1–3 cm., stellate-pilose; stipules c. 3 mm. long, subulate, setose-pilose.
Inflorescences leafy, of c. 2–5 small cymes per node; peduncles of cymes c. 3 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels similar, c. three together, 2–3 mm. long, pilose; bracts up to 2·5 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, forming an involucre, setose-pilose.
Fruit c. 8 mm. in diam. including the aculei; aculei broadening towards the base, shortly pilose, with 2–5 spreading setae at the apex.
Sepals reddish-brown, 5 mm. long, linear, stellate-pubescent outside, subapical horn 0·5 mm. long, bearing simple setose hairs.
Erect or lax perennial herb, 0.6 m high. Prickles on fruit terminated by crown of 2-5 minute setae. Flowers yellow.
Androgynophore 0·5 mm. long, with transversely elliptic-oblong glands; annulus with a ciliate margin.
Erect or rather lax perennial herb c. 0·6 m. tall, branching from the base; stems stellate-pilose.
Petals yellow, c. 5 mm. long, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, ciliate just above the base.
Stamens 9–10; filaments c. 5 mm. long.
Ovary subglobose, 4-locular.