Heliophila ramosissima O.E.Schulz

Perennial shrublets, much-branched at the base with spreading or ascending branches up to 25 cm high; glabrous. Leaves 1-4 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, linear or linear-oblanceolate, acute, succulent. Racemes terminal, laxly several-to many-flowered. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm long, slender and erect in flower; 0.7-1.2 cm long, reflexed in fruit. Sepals 4-5 mm long, 1.4-1.9 mm broad, oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic; outer 2 cucullate and thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate. Petals 7.5-9.5 mm long, 3.5-5 mm broad, obovate or obovate-oblong, rounded, clawed. Filaments 4.3-5 mm and 5.1-5.5 mm long. Anthers 1-1.3 mm long. Ovary linear; style long, slender; ovules 9-16. Fruits 2.5-3.5 cm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, linear, submoniliform, very shortly stipitate; valves obscurely 1-nerved, bulged by the seeds, alternately conve x and concave; style 3-4.5 mm long, stoutly subulate.