Heliophila katbergensis Marais

Procumbent perennial herbs, many-stemmed, glabrous. Stems with minute cuticular ridges. Leaves 1-1.8 cm long. 1.8-2.3 mm broad, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-elliptic, entire, acute-mucronate, subtended by 2 minute stipules. Racemes terminal, lax, many-flowered. Sepals 3.5-4 mm long, oblong, membranous-margined; outer 2 thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate. Petals 6.5-7.5 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm broad, broadly obovate. Filaments subulate, the short ones each with an appendage, Anthers 1.8-2 mm long. Ovary elliptic, stipitate; ovules 4-6. Immature fruit 1.6-1.7 cm long, 4.5-5 mm broad, oblong, on recurved pedicels 1.5-2 cm long; valves 1-nerved, reticulately veined; style 3.5-6.5 mm long, stout, c. 1 mm thick.