Heliophila glauca Burch. ex Dc.

Virgate shrubs up to 2 m high, but sometimes low with annual branches from a short woody crown, glabrous. Leaves up to 3 cm long and 0-5 cm broad, but mostly much smaller (0.8-1.5 cm long), oblanceolate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, fleshy, glaucous. Racemes terminal, many-flowered. Pedicels 0.3-1 cm long, strictly erect in flower, lengthening only slightly in fruit. Sepals 4.5-6.5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, oblong, with broad membranous margins; outer 2 slightly cucullate and thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate. Petals 8.5-14 mm long, 5.5-8 mm broad, obovate with a narrow claw. Filaments 2.5-4 mm and 3.5-6 mm long. Anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long. Ovary elliptic; style thin; stigma large, capitate; ovules 4-10. Fruits 2-3 cm long, 4-6 mm broad, linear-oblong or the shorter ones somewhat elliptic, with straight margins; valves flat, 1-nerved, net-veined; style 3.5-6.5 mm long, stout, tapering. Seeds 3-3.8 mm in diameter, subcircular, narrowly margined; seed-coat of large cells.