Heliophila carnosa (Thunb.) Steud.

Erect, glabrous shrublets up to 60 cm high, woody at the base from which arise annual flowering shoots with the leaves mostly crowded near the base, or tussock-forming plants with the leaves in a dense rosette; lower part of the annual stems often reddish or purplish. Leaves 3-20 cm long, 0.5-4 mm broad, entire, filiform to strap-shaped or lobed in the upper half with the lobes short (3-5 mm), or long (up to 3 cm), or finely to coarsely pinnately lobed, often somewhat fleshy, acute or acuminate, the midribs of the basal leaves peristent. Stipules subulate-filiform, caducous except on the lower leaves where they are united with the expanded, sheath-like base. Peduncles 8-35 cm long, nearly naked or sparsely and remotely leafy, simple or laxly branched; racemes contracted in the early stages, lengthening to up to 20 cm in fruit. Pedicels 0.7-2.5 cm long in flower, erect, thickened at the apex, subtended by 2 caducous subulate bracts; 1-2.8 cm long in fruit, recurved. Sepals 4-8.5 mm long, 1.3-3.5 mm broad, oblong; outer 2 cucullate and shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 saccate, with broad membranous margins. Petals 6.5-13.5 mm long, 4-9.5 mm broad, narrowly obovate to obovate-circular, rounded, the claw thick, often minutely papillate. Filaments 3.5-5.3 mm and 3.8-5.8 mm long, the 2 short ones sometimes minutely papillate at the base. Anthers 2-4 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong; stigma small, capitate; ovules 14-30. Fruits 2.5-8 cm long, 2.5-5(-6) mm broad, broadly linear with straight margins; valves 1-nerved, faintly reticulate, flat; style 3-10 mm long, straight. Seeds 2.5-4 x 2.8-5.5 mm, sub-circular or broadly oblong, narrowly winged.