Sebaea elongata E.Mey.

Erect annual or biennial herbs up to 70 cm high, simple or sometimes branching from the base, occasionally branching freely in the upper part. Leaves in a basal rosette, up to 4.5 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse or acute, thin, the cauline leaves smaller and further apart. Inflorescence many-flowered, dense and subcapitate or laxer and corymbose; bracts ovate to lanceolate or subulate, spreading, numerous. Calyx of 5 segments, each 3.75-6 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, acuminate, the sides hyaline or somewhat opaque, keeled or with a narrow keel-wing up to 0.4 mm broad, broadest at or below the middle. Corolla yellow; tube 3.25-5 mm long; lobes 2.75-7.75 mm long, 1-3.5 mm broad, narrowly elliptic to broadly ovate, obtuse or acute, clawed. Filaments 0.75-2.5 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.75-3 mm long, without glands or rarely each with 3 minute stipitate glands. Style and stigma 2-7.25 mm long with a rather small swelling at or below the middle, or rarely without a swelling; stigma capitate, 2-lobed.