Annual, (5-) 15-30 cm tall, erect or suberect, somewhat densely pubescent with short branched hairs. Leaves oblong-linear or oblong-lanceolate, pinnatifid to distantly sinuate-dentate, rarely entire, 15-55 mm long, 2-12 mm broad. Racemes 15-20-flowered, up to 10(-15) cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, yellow; pedicels up to 3 mm long in fruit, thickened, erect, appressed. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals c. 2.5 mm long, 1 mm broad. Stamens c. 1: 1.5 mm long. Siliquae 5-7 (-9) mm long, 1 mm broad, recurved above, somewhat contorted, densely pubescent; horns c. 1 mm long; stigma short, subsessile; seeds 4-5 in each locule, c. 1 mm long, suborbicular, brown.

Fl. Per.: March-May.

Lectotype: Afghanistan, Griffith (W).

Distribution: Pakistan and Afghanistan.