Heliophila filicaulis Marais

Much-branched slender shrublets with wiry branches; branches glabrous with minute cartilaginous lines which are mostly strongly beaded, these disappearing with age. Leaves 1-3 cm long, linear-filiform, acute, mucronate, subtended by 2 minute, filiform stipules. Racemes terminal, few-to several-flowered. Pedicels 0-6-1 cm long, erect or ascending, usually subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 5-5.5 mm long, 1.4-2 mm broad, narrowly oblong, membranous; outer 2 cucullate; inner 2 saccate. Petals 10-11.5 mm long, 3.8-4.3 mm broad, oblong-obovate, narrowly clawed. Filaments 4-5 mm and 5.5-6.5 mm long. Anthers 1.7-1.9 mm long. Ovary stipitate, lanceolate; style long; ovules 4-8. Fruits 1.5-3 cm long, 1.6-1.8 mm broad, linear, compressed, moniliform with narrow waists between the seeds; stipe 0.5-2 mm long; style 2.5-3 mm long, linear, stout. Seeds 2.2-2.3 x 1.3-1.4 mm, ovate, flat, papillose.