Heliophila laciniata Marais

Glabrous annual herbs with the leaves crowded in a basal rosette. Leaves 4-15 cm long, pinnately 5-14-lobed, the lobes spaced over the whole length of the leaf, alternate or opposite, short or long, projecting backwards, at right angles or upwards (the juvenile leaves sometimes simple); each subtended by 2 minute stipules. Peduncles 25-50 cm tall, naked, solitary or several, simple or branched. Pedicels subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower erect, 0.8-1.3 cm long; in fruit spreading or recurved-spreading 1-1.6 cm long. Sepals 4-5 mm long, 1.4-1.5 mm broad, oblong; outer 2 cucullate and thickened at the tip; inner 2 saccate. Petals 8.8-11 mm long, 4.3-6 mm broad, obovate to very broadly obovate, rounded, clawed. Filaments 3.2-3.8 mm and 3.4-4 mm long. Anthers 1.7-2.1 mm long. Ovary linear; style short; ovules 20-38. Fruits 2.5-4 cm long, 2-2.7 mm broad, linear, with straight margins; valves 1-nerved, finely reticulately veined; style 1-2.5 mm long, slender. Seeds 1.7-1.8 x 1.5-1.6 mm, reniform-circular, broad, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, narrowly winged.