Heliophila tricuspidata Schltr.

Slender perennial shrublets with decumbent or ascending branches, glabrous, the stems slightly muricate-papillate. Leaves 0.7-1.8 cm long, 2-11 mm broad, cuneate to ovate-cuneate, sharply 3-lobed, the upper ones smaller, ovate-elliptic, sometimes entire, minutely stipulate. Racemes terminal, lax, few-flowered. Pedicels subtended by 2 minute bracts; 0.6-1 cm long in flower, slender, erect; 1.3-1.5 cm long, recurved in fruit. Sepals 4-5 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, oblong; outer 2 cucullate; inner 2 saccate with membranous margins. Petals 9-11 mm long, 4.5-6 mm broad, broadly obovate above the claw. Filaments 2.8 mm and 4 mm long. Anthers 1.5 mm long. Ovary shortly stipitate, obovate or oblong, style long, stigma capitate; ovules 2-5. Fruits 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, ovate, stipitate; valves 1-nerved, reticulately veined; style stout, tapering, 2 mm long. Seeds 2.5 mm in diameter, subcircular, flattened. The mauve flowers are produced in October.