Heliophila seselifolia Burch. ex Dc.

Annual herbs up to 35 cm high, unbranched or several-to many-stemmed, the stems erect or decumbent; glabrous, glaucous. Leaves 1.5-5.5 cm long, mostly crowded near the base, 3-11-lobed, frequently with 2-4 pairs of lobes close together from the base of the leaf and the upper lobes pinnately arranged; lobes linear or filiform. Racemes terminal, few-to many-flowered, lax. Pedicels 0.7-1.5 cm long in flower, slender, erect; 1-2 cm long in fruit, spreading or recurved. Sepals 2.3-4 mm long, 1-1.8 mm broad, narrowly oblong, the outer 2 weakly cucullate; the inner 2 slightly saccate and with a broad membranous margin. Petals 3-10 mm long, 2.3-5.6 mm broad, obovate, rounded, clawed, without or with a small appendage on one side of the claw. Filaments 2-3 mm and 2.2-3.3 mm long, the short ones sometimes with a large appendage. Anthers 0.7-1.8 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong; style short; stigma capitate; ovules 12-27. Fruits 1.3-3.5 cm long, 1.5-3.7 mm broad, linear or linear-oblong with straight margins; valves 1-nerved, reticulately veined, flat, in one variety strongly bulged by the seeds; style 0.5-2.5 mm long. Seeds circular, narrowly winged.