Heliophila tulbaghensis Schinz

Perennial shrublets with decumbent or ascending branches up to 25 cm high, glabrous in all parts; stems smooth or with minute cartilaginous lines which are strongly beaded. Leaves 0.5-1.2 cm long, 0.5-1 mm broad, linear to linear-oblong, fleshy, more or less channelled above, wrinkled when dry, acute or mucronate, subtended by 2 minute stipules. Racemes intercalary or terminal on peduncle-like stems with reduced leaves, few-to several-flowered. Pedicels 3-4 mm long, erect, somewhat ridged, subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 3.5-4.5 mm long, 1-1.9 mm broad, oblanceolate-oblong to oblong; outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the apex; inner 2 saccate, with membranous margins. Petals 5.5-7 mm long, 2.3-3 mm broad, clawed with a ± oblong or obovate-oblong blade. Filaments 3.3-4.3 mm and 3.9-5.3 mm long, subulate. Anthers 1.1-1.4 mm long. Ovary very shortly stipitate, linear with a long style and small stigma; ovules 4-9. Fruits 1.5-2 cm long, 1.2-1.5 mm in diameter, linear, not compressed, shortly stipitate on erect pedicels 4-7 mm long, strongly moniliform, the beads separated by narrow waists; valves 1-nerved; style 1.5-4 mm long, stoutly subcylindrical or somewhat clavate. Seeds 1.5 x 1 mm long, ellipsoid, citriform, somewhat grooved, the seed-coat papillate.