Heliophila pendula Willd.

Glabrous annual herbs 8-50 cm high, erect, decumbent or diffuse. Leaves pinnate, subtended by 2 minute stipules; the lower ones up to 8 cm long, 7-13-lobed, upper leaves smaller and with fewer lobes; lobes linear or filiform up to 3 cm long. Racemes few-to many-flowered, in fruit lax, elongate. Pedicels subtended by 2 minute, filiform bracts; in fruit up to 2-2 cm long, spreading, suberect or ± recurved. Sepals 1.6-3.5 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm broad, narrowly ovate-oblong; outer 2 ± cucullate; inner 2 saccate, with a broad membranous margin. Petals 2-5 mm long, 1.3-3 mm broad, obovate, all papillate across the claw. Filaments 1.2-2.5 mm and 1.5-2.8 mm long, all papillate at the base. Anthers 0.4-1 mm long. Ovary oblong or linear-oblong; style short; stigma large, capitate; ovules 10-18. Fruits 1.5-5 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, strongly moniliform; valves flat, 1-nerved; style 1-2.5 mm long. Seeds 2-2.2 mm in diameter, subcircular, narrowly winged.