Heliophila maraisiana Al-shehbaz & Mumm.

Glabrous, glaucous, woody shrublets with virgate, terete branches up to 1 m tall. Leaves 1-2.5 cm long, 1-5 mm broad, oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, acute, mucronate, fleshy. Racemes many-flowered, lax. Pedicels 4-7 mm long, erect. Sepals 3.8-5 mm long, oblong, strongly 3-nerved. the reddish nerves converging at the apex and ending in a blunt point; inner 2 saccate at the base and with very broad membranous margins. Petals 1.2-1.7 cm long, 3.8-5 mm broad, oblanceolate or with an oblong-elliptic blade above the claw, rounded. Filaments 2.5-3 mm and 3.5-4 mm long, subulate. Anthers 1.5-2.3 mm long. Ovary oval or oblong, each valve soon developing a central keel and 4 or more lateral radiating ridges; style 2-3 times as long as the body of the ovary, stout; stigma small. Fruits erect with a sessile subcircular body 5-6 mm long, 4-5.5 mm broad; valves hard and woody with a central keel and 4 or more ridges radiating from it; valves beaked into the base of the style; style 4-6 mm long, stout, tapering; valves falling away with the seed firmly lodged in it by the wider head which fills the cavity (Viewed from the inside of the valve only the end of the stalk of the button mushroom-shaped seed shows and fills the opening.) Seeds with the narrow stalk part 1.5-2 x 1.3-2 mm; cotyledons twice transversely folded.