Heliophila meyeri Sond.

Glabrous annual herbs 10-45 cm high, often much branched, erect, procumbent or diffuse. Leaves pinnate, frequently pectinate, subtended by 2 minute stipules; basal leaves up to 18 cm long; lobes 3-25, 0.5-3 cm long, filiform, linear or strap-shaped, up to 3 mm broad; upper leaves smaller, sometimes not lobed. Racemes dense or lax, few-to many-flowered; in fruit elongate, lax. Pedicels subtended by 2 filiform bracts; 3-12 mm long in flower; in fruit 0.5-1.8 cm long, recurved or deflexed. Sepals 2-4.5 mm long, oblong; outer 2 cucullate; inner 2 saccate. Petals 2.8-9 mm long, 2-6.3 mm broad, obovate, papillate across the claw. Filaments 1.5-3.4 mm long, all papillate at the base or with a papillate appendage. Anthers 0.6-1.5 mm long, often drying greyish. Ovary linear or linear-oblong; style long; stigma small; ovules 10-16. Fruits 1-2.5 cm long, 1-3 mm broad, sub-moniliform or the margins straight; valves flat or folded alternately at right angles; style 0.8-4 mm long, slender. Seeds 1.5-2.1 mm in diameter subcircular, margined, or 1-1.5 x 0.8-1.2 mm, ovate or oblong-ovate, very narrowly margined.