Heliophila cedarbergensis Marais

Trailing or densely twiggy, woody shrublets; branches glabrous with red-brown bark, smooth or finely cartilaginous-papillate. Leaves 0.5-3 cm long, 1-2.5 mm broad, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate, smooth or finely cartilaginous-papillate, minutely stipulate. Inflorescence few-to several-flowered, intercalary. Pedicels 0.9-1.6 cm long, erect or ascending, subtended by 2 minute filiform bracts. Sepals 4.5-5.3 mm long, 1.8-2.3 mm broad, elliptic to elliptic-obovate; outer 2 cucullate and shortly horn-tipped with membranous margins; inner 2 membranous, saccate. Petals 10-11.5 mm long, 4.5-5 mm broad, obovate-spathulate, rounded, long-clawed. Filaments 3-5 mm and 4.5-5.5 mm long. Anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long. Ovary lanceolate, stipitate; style long, stigma capitate; ovules 10-12. Fruits 2-4 cm long, 2.5-3.5 mm broad, lanceolate, shortly stipitate; valves flat, 1-nerved, slightly bulged by the seeds; style 2.5-5 mm long, stoutly subulate. Seeds 2.5 x 1.6-1.8 mm, oval, compressed, papillate.