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Annual or perennial suffrutescent herb or shrub to 0.5 m tall; erect, branches ascending; young stems canescent to castaneous-tomentose, the hairs stellate with subappressed arms and often with reddish-brown centres (the coloured base of the arms); glabrous in age, the stems dark reddish-brown. Leaves narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, or oblong (rarely lanceolate), 1.2–7 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, apex acute, rounded or emarginate, margin very shallowly serrulate to crenulate, base rounded, velutinous above, paler (often cinereous) below and velutinous, the hairs above and below stellate, the arms ± ascending and often with reddish-brown centres; palmately 3–5-nerved from the base; petiole 3–20 mm long, velutinous, the hairs stellate and often with reddish-brown centres; stipules filiform, 2–6 mm long, caducous. Inflorescences 2–4-flowered cymes (sometimes appearing subumbellate), or flowers solitary; peduncle 0.3–2.2 cm long, ± 1 mm wide, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; pedicels 2–8 mm long, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; epicalyx bracts lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or ovate (never subulate or linear-lanceolate), 5–11 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, tomentose. Floral buds ovoid, the sepal tips very briefly free. Sepals narrowly ovate, 4–10 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, sometimes caudate, tomentose without, glabrous within. Petals broadly obovate, slightly asymmetrical, 5–8 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, ± truncate to slightly rounded apically, bright to pale yellow, glabrous. Staminal tube 0.5–2 mm long, free portion of filaments 1–2 mm long, anthers 1–3 mm long, free portion of staminodes 3.5–6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, 2–3 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, velutinous; 4 ovules per locule; style (1–)2–3 mm long; stigma lobes 1–1.5 mm long, erect. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, 4–7 mm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, tomentose, 2–3(–4) seeds per locule; seed trigonal to ovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, testa densely muricate, wihout an elaiosome.

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Annual or perennial suffrutescent herb or shrub to 0.5 m tall; erect, branches ascending; young stems canescent to castaneous-tomentose, the hairs stellate with subappressed arms and often with reddish-brown centres (the coloured base of the arms); glabrous in age, the stems dark reddish-brown. Leaves narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, or oblong (rarely lanceolate), 1.2–7 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, apex acute, rounded or emarginate, margin very shallowly serrulate to crenulate, base rounded, velutinous above, paler (often cinereous) below and velutinous, the hairs above and below stellate, the arms ± ascending and often with reddish-brown centres; palmately 3–5-nerved from the base; petiole 3–20 mm long, velutinous, the hairs stellate and often with reddish-brown centres; stipules filiform, 2–6 mm long, caducous. Inflorescences 2–4-flowered cymes (sometimes appearing subumbellate), or flowers solitary; peduncle 0.3–2.2 cm long, ± 1 mm wide, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; pedicels 2–8 mm long, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; epicalyx bracts lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or ovate (never subulate or linear-lanceolate), 5–11 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, tomentose. Floral buds ovoid, the sepal tips very briefly free. Sepals narrowly ovate, 4–10 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, sometimes caudate, tomentose without, glabrous within. Petals broadly obovate, slightly asymmetrical, 5–8 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, ± truncate to slightly rounded apically, bright to pale yellow, glabrous. Staminal tube 0.5–2 mm long, free portion of filaments 1–2 mm long, anthers 1–3 mm long, free portion of staminodes 3.5–6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, 2–3 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, velutinous; 4 ovules per locule; style (1–)2–3 mm long; stigma lobes 1–1.5 mm long, erect. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, 4–7 mm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, tomentose, 2–3(–4) seeds per locule; seed trigonal to ovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, testa densely muricate, wihout an elaiosome.

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Annual or perennial suffrutescent herb or shrub to 0.5 m tall; erect, branches ascending; young stems canescent to castaneous-tomentose, the hairs stellate with subappressed arms and often with reddish-brown centres (the coloured base of the arms); glabrous in age, the stems dark reddish-brown. Leaves narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic, or oblong (rarely lanceolate), 1.2–7 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, apex acute, rounded or emarginate, margin very shallowly serrulate to crenulate, base rounded, velutinous above, paler (often cinereous) below and velutinous, the hairs above and below stellate, the arms ± ascending and often with reddish-brown centres; palmately 3–5-nerved from the base; petiole 3–20 mm long, velutinous, the hairs stellate and often with reddish-brown centres; stipules filiform, 2–6 mm long, caducous. Inflorescences 2–4-flowered cymes (sometimes appearing subumbellate), or flowers solitary; peduncle 0.3–2.2 cm long, ± 1 mm wide, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; pedicels 2–8 mm long, velutinous when young, glabrous in age; epicalyx bracts lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or ovate (never subulate or linear-lanceolate), 5–11 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, tomentose. Floral buds ovoid, the sepal tips very briefly free. Sepals narrowly ovate, 4–10 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, sometimes caudate, tomentose without, glabrous within. Petals broadly obovate, slightly asymmetrical, 5–8 mm long, 4–10 mm wide, ± truncate to slightly rounded apically, bright to pale yellow, glabrous. Staminal tube 0.5–2 mm long, free portion of filaments 1–2 mm long, anthers 1–3 mm long, free portion of staminodes 3.5–6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, 2–3 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, velutinous; 4 ovules per locule; style (1–)2–3 mm long; stigma lobes 1–1.5 mm long, erect. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, 4–7 mm long, 4–8 mm in diameter, tomentose, 2–3(–4) seeds per locule; seed trigonal to ovoid, 1.5–2 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, testa densely muricate, wihout an elaiosome.