Heliophila rimicola Marais

Glabrous, stiffly branched, perennial shrublets; young branches striate with ridges from the thickened leaf-bases; older branches smooth, round, with light-brown bark. Leaves 0.8-4 cm long, 1-2.8 mm broad, linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, fleshy, subtended by 2 minute stipules. Inflorescence intercalary or terminal on abbreviated lateral shoots, few-flowered; the flowers sometimes subtended by a leaf. Pedicels 1-2.3 cm long, erect, the apex thickened and becoming strongly swollen in fruit; each subtended by 2 minute filiform bracts. Sepals 5-7 mm long, 1.5-3.5 mm broad, ovate or elliptic, outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the apex; inner 2 membranous. Petals 1.1-1.5 cm long, 5-7 mm broad, obovate-spathulate, rounded, clawed. Filaments 4-4.8 and 5.3-6.5 mm long. Anthers 1.8-2.7 mm long. Ovary lanceolate, stipitate; style slender; stigma small, shallowly 2-lobed; ovules 4-8. Fruits 1.5-3 cm long, 2.7-4 mm broad, on a stipe 0.5-2 mm long, lanceolate, long acuminate, flattened; valves 1-nerved, net-veined; style 2-3.5 mm long, slender, tapering. Seeds 2.1-3 x 1.8-2.5 mm, subcircular or oblong-circular, flattened, seedcoat smooth. Flowering specimens have been collected during December; specimens with ripe fruits during March and April.