Heliophila linearis Dc.

Perennial herbs, sometimes woody near the base, stout and erect up to 90 cm high, or with straggly or decumbent stems, glabrous or pilose, especially near the base and on the young growth, sometimes glaucous. Leaves 2-12 cm long, 0.8-17 mm broad, filiform to elliptic-oblong or obovate, entire or with a few small lobes, acute, mucronate, sessile, sometimes ± amplexicaul, often fleshy, glabrous or thinly hairy and ciliate. Racemes dense in flower, lax in fruit. Pedicels 0.5-1.1 cm long in flower, erect; 1-1.7 cm long in fruit, erect or curved to bring the fruits into an erect position. Sepals 5-9.5 mm long, 1.3-2.6 mm broad, narrowly oblong to oblong-ovate, glabrous to densely hairy; outer 2 cucullate, shortly horn-tipped or thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate, or all 4 with a thick horn-like or callose tip. Petals 7-12 mm long, 3.3-6 mm broad, obovate-oblong to obovate-circular, each with a large papillate appendage. Filaments 3-5 mm and 3.5-6 mm long, each of the 2 short ones with a large papillate appendage. Anthers 1.9-3.2 mm long. Ovary glabrous or hairy; ovules 20-50. Fruits 2.5-11 cm long, 1.8-4 mm broad, linear with straight margins or irregularly wavy; valves flat, 3-nerved; style 1.5-8 mm long, stoutly subulate or bulbous to ovoid-cuspidate. Seeds variable, flat, winged.