Heliophila brachycarpa Meisn.

Woody shrublet or small tree 0.5-2 m high with brittle wood; stems striate, the ridges sometimes of fine contiguous cuticular papillae. Leaves 1.5-3.5 cm long, 1-4 mm broad, linear-subspathulate to oblanceolate, glabrous, glaucous, subtended by minute, subulate stipules. Racemes terminal on side-branches, short, corymbose in flower, lengthening in fruit. Pedicels 3-5 mm long in flower, erect; 5-8 mm long in fruit, erect; subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 3.3-5 mm long, 1.8-2.5 mm broad, oblong or obovate-oblong, with broad membranous margins; outer 2 slightly saccate; inner 2 strongly saccate. Petals 6-7.5 mm long, 2-2.3 mm broad, spathulate, obtuse, with a long papillate claw. Filaments 4-4.5 mm 4.4-4.8 mm long, all densely papillate in the lower part. Anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long. Ovary shortly stipitate, elliptical; style long, stigma small, capitate; ovules 4. Fruits 2-3 cm long, 5-7 mm broad, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, often oblique, narrowed at both ends, shortly stipitate; valves flat, 1-nerved, net-veined; style 1.5-2.5 mm long, subulate. Seeds 2.5-5 mm in diameter, subcircular. Specimens have been collected in flower from May to December, but the main flowering period appears to be during July and August.