Heliophila dregeana Sond.

Much-branched shrublets 20-35 cm high; branches ascending or somewhat decumbent, finely or coarsely scabro-papillate, the papillae simple or lobed, often arranged in rows. Leaves 0.3-1.5 cm long, 3-4 mm broad, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or mucronulate, fleshy, scabro-papillate or coarsely papillate-denticulate. Inflorescence intercalary, few-flowered. Pedicels 2.5-5 mm long, ascending in flower; 0.4-1.1 cm long, wide-spreading in fruit, papillate or papillate-denticulate. Sepals 3.5-5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, oblong-elliptic or ovate-oblong, papillate along the midrib; outer 2 shortly horn-tipped, somewhat cucullate; inner 2 saccate, with broad membranous margins. Petals 6-9.5 mm long, 2.5-4 mm broad, long-clawed, circular-spathulate to oblong-spathulate. Filaments 2.3-3.3 and 3.3-5 mm long, subulate. Anthers 1.1-1.5 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong with a long style and capitate stigma; ovules 2-6. Fruits 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1.5-1.8 mm in diameter, linear, not compressed, moniliform, the beads separated by narrow waists, shortly stipitate, ascending-erect from the wide-spreading pedicels; valves sparsely papillate; style 3.5-5 mm long, subulate. Seeds 1.6 x 1 mm.