Stellately pilose shrublet with annual stems up to c. 30 cm. tall arising from a woody rootstock. Leaf-lamina up to 4 × 1·8 cm., oblong to obovate-oblong, apex obtuse, margin dentate or crenate or subentire, base broadly cuneate, sparsely and softly pilose on both surfaces; petiole up to 3 mm. long; stipules c. 1 × 0·3 cm., leafy, palmately 2–4-partite with lanceolate segments or entire and lanceolate. Flowers usually in pairs, on a common peduncle in the upper axils; peduncle up to 1·5 cm. long, densely pilose; pedicels similar, up to 0·7 cm. long; bracts palmatifid with linear segments, densely pilose. Calyx up to 1·2 cm. in diam., depressed-globose, villous, inflated, with deltoid teeth c. 3 mm. long. Petals c. 1·0 × 0·3 cm., yellow, just exserted, narrowly oblong-spathulate, glandular-pubescent, margins inrolled in the lower 1/3. Stamens with cruciform-tuberculate pilose filaments c. 4 mm. long; anthers c. 3·5 mm. long, pilose. Ovary subglobose, densely pubescent; styles 4 mm. long, puberulous at the base. Calyx inflated and persistent in fruit, enclosing the ripe capsule. Capsule 6–7 mm. in diam., globose, pubescent. Seeds almost black, c. 2 × 1·5 mm., compressed, hemispherical-reniform.
