An erect, annual or perennial undershrub. Leaves highly variable, rhomboid-lanceolate to lanceolate, sub-glabrous above, grey-pubescent hoary beneath. Flowersare yellow or white, axillary, solitary or in pairs. Fruits depressed globose schizocarp,enclosed within the calyx, separating into one-seeded indehiscent unit. Seeds black,smooth. (India) Herb or small shrub, 0-3-2m high, leaf oblong, green both, surface grey beneath,flower yellow (Indonesia)