A small tufted perennial, 1-6 cm tall in fruit, glabrous, much branched from the base; rootstock 2-4 mm thick, simple or branched. Radical leaves densely rosulate, linear-oblong, or narrowly spathulate, 10-25 mm long, 1-5 mm broad, entire to bluntly toothed, shortly stalked or subsessile, apex rounded; cauline leaves ± involucrate below the inflorescence, linear; all leaves glabrous, fleshy. Racemes 10-20-flowered, bracteate below, densely corymbose. Flowers 3-3.5 mm across, white, sometimes with violet tinge; pedicels up to 4.5 mm long and somewhat thickened in fruit. Sepals c. 2 mm long, persistent. Petals c. 3 mm long, spathulate, apex subretuse or slightly toothed. Stamens c. 2: 2.5 mm long; anthers c. 0.3 mm Siliculae c. 2.5 mm in diam. with 2 wing-like crests on the valves; septum usually perforated or incommplete, c. 1 mm wide, seeds 2-4 in each locule, c. 0.8 mm long, oblong.
Fl. Per.: June-July.
Type: West Tibet, in salt marshes, Thomson (K).
Distribution: C. Asia, Himalayas, Tibet to Nepal.
A curious tufted small perennial of saline marches at altitudes above 3000 m.
