Heliophila arenosaSchltr. [family CRUCIFERAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Heliophila arenosa
Heliophila stenocarpa
Flora
Entry for Heliophila arenosa [family BRASSICACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Heliophila arenosa [family BRASSICACEAE]
Common names
1H. stenocarpa Schltr., I.e. 139 (1899). Type : Schlechter 8839 (B!).
Information
Slender annual herbs 10-25 cm high, simple, erect or with several ascending stems. Stems generally glabrous, but occasionally some plants puberulous in all vegetative parts. Leaves pinnately 3-7-lobed, the lobes linear or linear-filiform, short or long. Racemes terminal, lax. Pedicels glabrous or sparsely puberulous, in fruit wide-spreading or ascending, 0-3-1-2 cm long. Sepals 3-5-4-5 mm long, narrowly oblong; outer 2 cucullate; inner 2 with membranous margins. Petals 5-8 mm long, 2-2:8 mm broad, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, subacute, with a small, sometimes obsolete appendage. Filaments 2-9-3-6 mm and 3-3-4 mm long; the 2 short ones with small appendages or without. Anthers 0-8-1 mm long. Ovary linear; ovules 20-40. Fruits 3-5 cm long, 1-1-5 mm broad, linear with straight marÂgins; valves flat, 1- or obscurely 3-nerved; style 1-5-6-5 mm long, straight, cylindrical or slightly swollen.
Use
37. Heliophila arenosa Schltr. in Bot. Jahrb. 27 : 133 (1899). Type : Schlechter 8531 (B!).
Range
An insufficiently known species. Most plants in the two Schlechter gatherings are glabrous, but some individuals are densely short-puberulous in all parts. Marais 1400 consists of only puberulous plants. Differs from H. arenaria in he small flowers with very narrow petals.
