Heliophila macowaniana Schltr.

Annual herbs 10-50 cm high; simple and erect, or branched from the base and spreading; stem, axils of branches, upper surface of leaves and pedicels puberulous or somewhat scabrid, rarely glabrous; sepals with coarse spreading hairs. Leaves 2-8 cm long, entire or pinnately 3-to 11-lobed, rarely sub-bipinnately lobed; lobes linear or filiform, short or long; minutely stipulate. Racemes terminal on side-branches, the rhachis becoming zigzag in fruit. Pedicels minutely bracteate or ebracteate; 3-7 mm long, slender, erect in flower; 5-11 mm long, spreading or nearly erect in fruit. Sepals 2.5-3.5 mm long, 0.9-1.6 mm broad, narrowly oblong to ovate, coarsely hairy; outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the tip; inner 2 slightly saccate and with a broad membranous margin. Petals 4.5-7 mm long, 2.3-4.6 mm broad, elliptic-obovate to broadly obovate, rounded, clawed, with a very small appendage, or rarely without. Filaments 1.5-3.6 mm and 1.9-3.7 mm long, the 2 short ones with a small inconspicuous appendage. Anthers 0.8-1.4 mm long. Ovary glabrous or puberulous; style long, stigma capitate; ovules 10-24. Fruits 1-3.5 cm long, 0.8-1.3 mm broad, linear, moniliform; valves 1-or inconspicuously 3-nerved, somewhat bulged by the seeds, glabrous or puberulous; style 1-5 mm long, stoutly subulate or ± clavate. Seeds 1-1.4 x 0.6-0.8 mm, oblong, narrowly margined. The flowers are white or blue; spring-flowering.