Heliophila decurva Schltr.

Erect annual herbs 30-60 cm high, simple or branched from the base, glaucous; lower part of stem and leaves thinly puberulous, also the young growth, pedicels and sepals. Leaves 5-15 cm long, 1-1.8 mm broad, linear, simple or few-lobed near the apex, fleshy; lower leaves opposite, minutely stipulate; upper leaves alternate, exstipulate. Racemes terminal, lax. Pedicels 3-7.5 mm long in flower, slender; 0.6-1.2 cm long in fruit, stout, sharply deflexed. Sepals 2.5-4.5 mm long, narrowly oblong, semi-persistent; outer 2 cucullate; inner 2 slightly saccate. Petals 4-5.8 mm long, 1.3-2.9 mm broad, obovate, clawed, each with a small appendage. Filaments 3.3-3.7 mm and 3.9-4.3 mm long, each of the 2 short ones with a small appendage. Anthers 0.8-1.3 mm long. Ovary linear; ovules 22-30. Fruits 3-7.5 cm long, 1.8-2.5 mm broad, linear with straight margins; valves flat, 3-nerved; style 6-11 mm long, stout, subulate to conical-subulate. Seeds 1.8-2 x 1.2-1.5 mm, oblong.