Heliophila nubigena Schltr.

Much-branched perennial shrublets with decumbent, straggling branches up to 45 cm high; all vegetative parts densely lanate with straight or slightly crinkly hairs, or densely felted with short straight hairs. Leaves 0.5-1.4 cm long, 1.3-7 mm broad, elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic to ovate, acute, cuneate. Inflorescence terminal, few-to several-flowered, the raceme at first subcorymbose. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm long, erect. Sepals 4.5-6 mm long, 1.9-3 mm broad, densely lanate; outer 2 oblong, cucullate, with membranous margins; inner 2 ovate-oblong, saccate, with broad membranous margins. Petals 0.9-1.5 cm long, 5-6.5 mm broad, long-clawed with an obovate-circular blade. Filaments 3.1-4 mm and 3.5-4.5 mm long, subulate. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Ovary elliptical, densely lanate or felted; style glabrous, slender; stigma capitate; ovules 2-6. Fruits 0.5-1.3 cm long, 3.5-4 mm broad, shortly stipitate on recurved pedicels 1.3-1.6 cm long, oblong, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, sometimes oblique, flattened; valves hairy, 1-nerved, net-veined, slightly inflated over the seeds; style 2.5-6.5 mm long, stout, tapering, hairy except at the tip. Seeds 2-3 x 1.6-2-5 mm, oblong to subcircular, subcompressed or ± angled, immarginate, the seed-coat somewhat pitted.