Heliophila elata Sond.

Slender virgate shrublets or sometimes ± decumbent; lower part of the stems and axils of the branches minutely puberulous. Leaves 2-12 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm broad, filiform or linear, entire or 3-5(-9)-lobed, minutely puberulous on the upper surface, minutely stipulate. Racemes terminal, lax. Pedicels glabrous or puberulous, mostly subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower 0.3-1 cm long, slender, erect; in fruit 0.4-1.2 cm long, spreading or recurved-spreading. Sepals 3.5-7 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, narrowly oblong, glabrous or minutely puberulous at the apex; outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate or not. Petals 5.5-9.5 mm long, 2-4.3 mm broad, narrowly obovate, rounded or subacute, with or without appendages. Filaments 2.5-4.8 mm and 2.9-5.3 mm long, the short ones with or without appendages. Anthers 1.3-2.6 mm long. Ovary linear with a slender style; ovules 18-40. Fruits 2-8 cm long, 1-1.7 mm broad, linear, shallowly moniliform; valves 1-nerved, flat, slightly bulged by the seeds; style 1-5.5 mm long, stoutly subulate to bulbously swollen. Seeds 0.9-1.9 x 0.7-1.2 mm, oblong to ± rectangular, flat, narrowly margined.