Heliophila subulata Burch. ex Dc.

Perennial shrublets or annual herbs 10-50 cm tall; stems erect or procumbent, densely and minutely puberulous or scabro-puberulous, sometimes retrorsely scabrid. Leaves 1-7 cm long, 0.5-3 mm broad, filiform to lanceolate, entire, fleshy, glabrous on both or only the upper surface, puberulous, minutely stipulate. Racemes terminal, lax; rhachis glabrous or sparsely puberulous in the lower part; very young buds sometimes puberulous. Pedicels subtended by 2 minute bracts; in flower 0.5-1.5 cm long, slender, erect; in fruit 0.8-2.2 cm long, wide-spreading or recurved. Sepals 4.5-6 mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm broad, narrowly oblong; the outer 2 shortly horn-tipped; inner 2 cucullate and thickened at the apex. Petals 6-9.5 mm long, 2.8-5 mm broad, elliptic or obovate, clawed, rounded or subacute. Filaments 3-4.8 mm and 3.3-5.3 mm long. Anthers 1.9-3 mm long. Ovary linear with a slender style; ovules 24-42. Fruits 2-6 cm long. 1.5-2.3 mm broad, linear with straight margins; valves flat, 1-3-nerved; style 0.8-4.5 mm long, conical to stoutly subulate, the stigma narrower than the diameter of the style. Seeds 2-2.5 x 1.5-1.9 mm, oblong-circular to oblong-rectangular, flat, narrowly winged. The flowering time is from August to December, but mostly in August and September.