Heliophila minima
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Full name: | Heliophila minima (Stephens) Marais |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AD) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Cleome minima Stephens Heliophila deserticola O.E.Schulz var. rangei Heliophila edentula O.E.Schulz - prol. macrosperma O.E.Schulz p.p. Heliophila pearsonii O.E.Schulz Heliophila pearsonii O.E.Schulz var. edentata Hainz Heliophila pearsonii O.E.Schulz var. prageri Heliophila smithii O.E.Schulz Heliophila suavissima Sond. var. incana Heliophila suavissima Sond. var. velutina O.E.Schulz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Annual or perennial herbs 5-60 cm high, erect, usually much branched; basal part of stem and young shoots puberulous or shortly hairy. Leaves 2-12 cm long, 0-5-1-5 mm broad, linear or linear-filiform, simple or 2-3-fid, often glaucous, puberulous or shortly hairy on the upper surface; each subtended by 2 minute, filiform, caducous stipules. Racemes lax, elongating in fruit. Pedicels glabrous or sparsely puberulous, in flower 0.8-1.2 cm long, erect; in fruit 1-2 cm long, spreading or recurved; with 2 minute bracts similar to the stipules. Sepals 3-8-5-5 mm long, 1-2-1-8 mm broad, narrowly oblong, semi-persistent; the outer 2 cucullate, sometimes thickened at the apex, with a membranous margin; inner 2 saccate, with a broad membranous margin. Petals 6-8 (8) mm long, 1.2 - 4.5 mm broad, mostly narrowly elliptic but sometimes obovate, clawed, subacute or rounded, without or with a small appendage. Filaments 3.4-4.1 mm and 4-4.5 mm long; the short ones mostly with an appendage, sometimes without; the long ones papillate or smooth. Anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 21 Jun 2018 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D |
| Lens aperture: | f/10.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1250 s |
| ISO speed: | 1000 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
