Heliophila pubescens Burch.

Annual pubescent herbs up to 20 cm high, but often very small; simple or branched at the base; stems erect or ascending, densely pubescent. Leaves up to 6 cm long, pectinately pinnatipartite with 5-6 pairs of lobes, densely hairy, minutely stipulate. Racemes few-to many-flowered, dense at first but lax in fruit; rhachis densely puberulous. Pedicels puberulous, subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower erect, 1.5-2.5 mm long; in fruit erect or spreading, 3-5 mm long. Sepals 2.3-2.8 mm long, 0.9-1.5 mm broad, ovate-oblong or narrowly oblong, densely puberulous, cucullate, semi-persistent. Petals 3-4.5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, circular-spathulate with a long claw or ovate-elliptic above a short claw. Filaments 2-2.4 mm and 2.4-2.6 mm long. Anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous or puberulous; style short, stigma small; ovules 4-8. Fruits c. 2 cm long, 1.5-1.9 mm broad, linear, moniliform; valves flat, 1-nerved, glabrous or puberulous, the margins thick-ned; style 1-1.5 mm long, ± clavate in young fruits, later cylindrical or conical-cylindric. Seeds 1.5-1.9 x 1.2-1.4 mm, subcircular.