Heliophila amplexicaulis L.F.

Slender or stout annual herbs 15-45 cm high; stems glaucous, glabrous or very thinly puberulous at the base. Leaves 1.5-6 cm long, 0.1-1.6 cm broad, mostly broadly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, but varying from broadly linear to elliptic-cordate or oblanceolate, mostly ± cordate at the base, sessile, the apex blunt to acuminate, entire, young leaves sometimes puberulous. Racemes terminal, few-to many-flowered, contracted in flower, lax in fruit. Pedicels glabrous or puberulous, 0.4-1.5 cm long in flower, slender, erect; 0.6-2.5 cm long in fruit, spreading or reflexed-spreading. Sepals 2-4.3 mm long, 0.9-1.8 mm broad, narrowly oblong to ovate-oblong, semi-persistent, glabrous or puberulous; the outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the tip; the inner 2 slightly saccate at the base, broadly membranous-margined. Petals 3.5-8.5 mm long, 2.5-5.5 mm broad, obovate-circular to elliptic-ovate above the claw, rounded, each with a small papillate appendage. Filaments 1.8-3 mm and 2.1-4 mm long; each of the 2 short ones with an appendage. Anthers 0.9-1.5 mm long. Ovary linear to oblong; style short, stigma large, capitate; ovules 6-16. Fruits 2.5-3.5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, linear, strogly moniliform, the 'beads' subcircular or oval, close together or separated by narrow waists; valves flat, 1-nerved, reticulately veined, slightly bulged by the seeds, glabrous or thinly puberulous; style 1.3-4 mm long, stout, slightly swollen, or thin and straight. Seeds 1.5-1.8 x 1.2-1.6 mm, broadly oblong to subcircular, very narrowly margined, or 1.4-1.5 x 1 mm, oblong.