Heliotropium amplexicaule

Perennial, prostrate or ascending, to c. 15 cm high; indumentum of mixed simple and glandular hairs. Leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 2–8 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margins slightly undulate, both surfaces finely hairy with a mixture of long simple hairs and shorter glandular hairs; petiole short, indistinct. Inflorescences usually branched several times. Sepals narrow-ovate, 2.5–3.5 mm long, acute, hairy, shortly connate, not elongating; corolla 6–7 mm long, throat densely bearded, purple or lilac with a yellow throat, tube c. as long as lobes; anthers acuminate, apices free; style obscure, stigma c. 0.4 mm long, pubescent. Mericarps 2, succulent at first, dry and falling at maturity, glabrous, rugose, brown. Flowers Nov.–Mar.