An annual, parasitic herb, rough with warted or tubercled bristles, interspersed with softer hairs, 2–4 in. high, branching from the base. “Primary stem subterranean, bright orange in colour” branches slender, alternate. Leaves crowded, apparently all alternate, sessile, rather thick, narrow-lanceolate or spathulate, the longest about 1 in. long, obtuse tapering to the base, few-toothed. Flowers shortly pedicellate, yellow, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves or bracts, about 3/4 in. long; bracts similar to the leaves, longer than the flowers, smaller upwards, adnate to the base of the pedicel; bracteoles linear, acute, about 1/4 in. long, thinly clothed, as well as the calyx, with long soft hairs. Calyx thin, about 1/3 in. long, 10-nerved, nearly equally 5-lobed; lobes triangular, scarcely acute, about as long as the tube. Corolla obliquely campanulate, about 3/4 in. long, veined, 5-lobed; lobes rounded. Stamens nearly equal; filaments all bearded, the longer very strongly; anther-cells slightly unequal, apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style longer than the stamens, club-shaped above the middle, strongly recurved.
