Small annual herb, 5-10 (-20) cm long, simple or sparsely branched; branches filiform, ± hairy with minute, branched hairs. Leaves pinnatisect, 1-2 jugate, stalked; lobes narrowly oblong or linear, 3-5 (-10) mm long, 0.5-2 mm broad, entire with subrounded apex. Racemes 5-10 (-15)-flowered, lax, up to 10 (-15) cm long in fruit. Flowers very small, 1.5-2 mm across, white or slightly pinkish; pedicels up to 8 mm long in fruit, filiform, spreading or recurved. Sepals c. 1.2 mm long. Petals 1.5-2 mm long, less than 1 mm broad. Stamens c. 1: 1.3 mm long; anthers c. 0.25 mm long. Siliquae 10-15 (-25) mm long, less than 1 mm broad, linear, sub-flattened, subtorulose, erect or slightly curved; valves glabrous to hairy, obscurely to distinctly 1-veined; septum hyaline, not veined; seeds 5-10 in each locule, c. 1 mm long, oblong, brown.

Fl. Per.: April June.

Syntypes: W. Tibet, Zanskar, Thomson (K); Afghanistan, Griffith (K).

Distribution: Himalayas, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.