Heliophila cinerea Marais

Perennial herbs, woody at the base; branches decumbent or erect, up to 60 cm high; stem densely hirsute. Leaves 0.8-3.5 cm long, 2-12 mm broad, oblong, narrowly obovate or spathulate, rounded or acute, densely hirsute. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, the rhachis thinly hirsute. Pedicels hairy; in flower c. 6 mm long, erect; in fruit c. 1 cm long, erect. Sepals 8-10 mm long, oblong, densely hirsute, especially when young; all saccate, the inner 2 strongly; all cucullate and thickened at the apex. Petals 11-5 mm long, 5 mm broad (and probably bigger) elliptic or ± oblong above the claw, each with a large papillate appendage. Filaments 3.5-5 mm and 4-5.5 mm long,the 2 short ones each with a papillate appendage. Anthers 2.5-2.8 mm long. Ovary linear, densely hirsute; ovules 32-40. Fruits 6-8 cm long, 2.5-3 mm broad, linear; valves shortly and thinly hirsute, glabrescent, 3-nerved; base of the style globose with a thin point, as wide as the valves, 2.5-5 mm long.