Annual herb, erect or decumbent, strongly, smelling, sticky-pubescent; stem often rooting from lower nodes, weak; leaves pinnatifid, pinnae toothed or lyrate, lobes ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate at base, coarsely dentate, glandular hairy; flowers axillary, solitary or clustered; peduncles few flowered; pedicels jointed above the middle; calyx divided to the base; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, glandular hairy, unaltered in fruit; corolla yellow, rotate, short tube with shallow lobes, lanceolate, acuminate, 5-6 plaited in bud; stamens 5-6, epipetalous, anthers loosely connvient in an elongate cone, dehiscing by slits; ovary 2-3 celled, many ovuled, style cylindric, stigma small, capitate; berries globose, depressed near the base, pulpy, red or orange to yellow at maturity, varying in size and shape; seeds many, compressed, discoid to ovoid.