Heliophila collina O.E.Schulz

Annual pubescent herbs, usually much-branched at the base; branches decumbent, up to 20 cm high, densely pubescent below, puberulous above. Leaves up to 6 cm long, pinnatipartite with 3-4 pairs of lobes, fleshy, 1-2 mm broad, densely pubescent, minutely stipulate. Racemes many-flowered, lax; very lax in fruit; rhachis puberulous. Pedicels puberulous, each subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower erect, 4-5 mm long; in fruit erect-spreading or reflexed, 5-11 mm long. Sepals 2.3-3.3 mm long, 1-1.4 mm broad, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, puberulous, caducous; the outer 2 cucullate and ± thickened at the tip; the inner 2 with membranous margins. Petals 4-5-6 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, subcircular or oblong-circular above the short claw, with a small appendage. Filaments 1.8-2.3 mm and 2.2-2.8 mm long, all without appendages. Anthers 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong; style long, stigma small; ovules 4-12. Fruits 1-2 cm long, 2.3-3 mm broad, moniliform; valves 1-nerved, faintly reticulately veined, flat, bulged by the seeds, glabrous or puberulous; style 2-4.3 mm long, subulate or cylindrical. Seeds 1.8-2.3 x 1.4-1.9 mm, oblong or oval to subcircular, immarginate, not quite flat.