Heliophila digitata L.F.

Erect annual herbs 15-50 cm tall, slender or robust; indumentum variable in amount and nature. Stems often brownish or reddish near the base; lower half or only the lower few nodes pilose. Leaves 2-6 cm long with filiform lobes, the lobes alternate or opposite; at one extreme the leaves are 3-lobed near the tip, at the other they are up to 23-lobed with 2-4 pairs of lobes close together from the dilated leaf-base with the other lobes more distant along the rest of its length; subglabrous to densely pubescent. Racemes lax. Pedicels 0.4-1 cm long in flower, slender, erect; 0.5-1.1 cm long in fruit, stout, erect-spreading, thinly to densely pilose. Sepals 4-6.3 mm long, 0.9-2 mm. broad, oblong, densely pilose in bud, glabrescent; outer 2 cucullate, the apex thickened or shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 saccate with broad membranous margins. Petals 4.8-9 mm long, 2.5-6.5 mm broad, oblong-obovate to circular-obovate, with an appendage near the base. Filaments 2.5-4 mm and 3-5.1 mm long, the 2 short ones generally with a conspicuous appendage. Anthers 1.1-2.2 mm long. Ovary linear, glabrous or thinly hairy; style long, slender; stigma capitate; ovules 26-40(-54). Fruits 2.5-5.5 cm long, 0.7-1 mm in diameter, linear, cylindrical or only very slightly compressed, the margins straight; valves 1-3-nerved, glabrous or puberulous; style (1.2-)2.5-6.5(-10) mm long, stoutly subulate or conical-subulate, tapering (only rarely short and blunt). Seeds 0.8-1.1 ±0.6-0.7 mm, oblong to subcircular.