Heliophila schulzii Marais

Slender or stout annual herbs 15-45 cm high, simple or with many ascending branches; basal part of stem and sometimes the axils of the branches shortly puberulous. Leaves 5-12 cm long, entire or 3-lobed, the lobes linear or linear-filiform; the upper leaves entire, shorter; upper surface minutely puberulous; stipules minute, caducous. Racemes lax. Pedicels shortly puberulous at the base, with 2 minute bracts; in flower slender, erect; in fruit 1-1.5 cm long, wide-spreading but finally sharply reflexed. Sepals 4.5-6 mm long, 1.2-1.9 mm broad, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, with membranous margins, shortly puberulous; outer 2 cucullate, thickened or very shortly horned at the apex; inner 2 saccate. Petals 0.8-1.2 cm long, 3.5-7.8 mm broad, obovate, cuneate or clawed, each with an appendage. Filaments 3.5-4.5 mm and 4-5 mm long, the short ones with appendages. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Ovary linear; stigma large, capitate; ovules (36-)44-70(-80). Fruits 3-5-6 cm long, 1-1.8 mm broad, linear with straight margins; valves 1-nerved, strongly bulged by the seeds, glabrous or puberulous all over, or just near the base; style 1.8-3.5 mm long, straight or subclavate or very slightly swollen in the lower half. Seeds 0.9-1.4 x 0.7-1 mm, suborbicular to oblong.