Heliophila crithmifolia Willd.

Erect annual herbs, sometimes with spreading branches; indumentum variable, usually ± pilose, dense or sparse in lower half, the upper part less hairy or merely puberulous; occasionally completely glabrous. Leaves 3-12 cm long, pinnately lobed with 1-6 pairs of lobes; lobes short or up to 5 cm long, broadly linear to filiform, ± fleshy; each leaf subtended by 2 minute stipules. Racemes lax, elongate, few-to many-flowered. Pedicels subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower 0.8-2.6 cm long; in fruit 1.3-3 cm long, reflexed or spreading. Sepals 3-4.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, oblanceolate-oblong to oblong, semi-persistent; outer 2 slightly to strongly cucullate; inner 2 saccate, with broad membranous margins. Petals 4-7(-10) mm long, 1.5-3.8(-6) mm broad, elliptic to obovate, without or with small appendages. Filaments 3-4 mm and 3.3-4.5 mm long, the 2 short ones with or without appendages. Anthers 0.8-1.4(-1.8) mm long. Ovary linear to oblong; style short, stout; stigma capitate; ovules 20-42. Fruits 1.5-6 cm long, 2-4.5 mm broad, linear or linear-oblong with straight margins; valves flat, 1-nerved, reticulately veined; style 0.5-2(-3) mm long, stout. Seeds 1.9-3.5 mm in diameter, subcircular, narrowly to broadly winged with a deep, narrow sinus.