Compilation
Tricliceras lobatum

An annual herb. Stem 5–100 cm. high, erect, simple or branched, more or less crisply puberulous and also sparsely setose, the setae short (up to 0–5 mm. long), yellow or brown with swollen base. Leaves heteromorphic, acute at the apex, shallowly crenate-serrate or subentire at the margin, membranous, slightly discolorous, subpatently hairy, rarely subglabrous above, the 2–3 lower ones up to 5 × 1·3 cm., elliptic, unlobed and petiolate (petiole up to 4 mm. long), the others larger (up to 15 × 3·5(4·5) cm.), lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, irregularly lobed in the lower 1/2–2/3 (lobes 1–4, blunt, frequently with a sessile gland at the top) and with a pair of very small glandular auricle-like lobes at the base, subsessile to sessile, rarely all the leaves unlobed. Flowers 1–4 per raceme; peduncles slender, straight, 2–9 cm. long in flower, up to 20 cm. long in fruit, with indumentum as on the stem but more sparse and also with patent, soft white hairs up to 2 mm. long, denser towards the base of the peduncles; bracteoles c. 1 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels 3(4) mm. long. Calyx hairy and sometimes also setose on the outside; tube 9–10·5 mm. long, hairy inside on the lower 4 mm.; lobes 3–5 mm. long, oblong, usually obtuse, with hyaline, ciliolate margin. Petals 15–18(20) × 3·5–5 mm., obovate-cuneate, pale yellow to orange, rarely white; ligules 1·5 mm. long. Stamens with 9–13 mm. long filaments, 2 shorter and 3 longer; anthers c. 2·5 mm. long. Ovary c. 4·5 × 1 mm., narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous; styles 8–10 mm. long. Capsule 4–7 cm. long and 1–1·5 mm. in diameter, moniliform, at right angles to the peduncle or deflexed, glabrous; beak 2·5 mm. long. Seeds 2–2·5 × 1 mm., obovate or obovate-oblong; aril up to 2/3 the length of the seed.