Amsinckia

Annual herbs with a coarse indumentum of stiff spreading hairs. Rosette leaves petiolate, sheathing at base; cauline leaves alternate, sessile. Inflorescences terminal, of few-several simple monochasial scorpioid cymes; bracts usually absent. Flowers sessile (in Victoria) or shortly pedicellate; sepals 5 (in Victoria), rarely 3 or 4 due to fusion, scarcely connate basally, elongating with age; corolla regular, 5-lobed, more or less cylindric, usually glabrous, rarely with 5 saccate scales in throat, yellow to orange; stamens included in corolla-tube or in throat with tips of anthers exserted, anthers subsessile; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, style filiform, about as long as stamens, stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Fruit splitting into 4 mericarps, leaving a conical gynobase; mericarps ovoid, tapering to an apical point, ridged, rugose-tuberculate.