Shrubby perennial, branched, 30-70 cm tall, with a broom-l ike appearance. Leaves sessile, lanceolate to linear (6-) 32 mm long, base attenuate, subacute to acute, glabrous above, appressed sericeous-pilose below. The upper leaves linear and smaller in size. Flowers 1-2, axillary, pedicellate. Bracteoles minute. Sepals almost equal, 4-5 mm long, oblong to oblong-spathulate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, the inner slightly longer or equal to the outer sepals. Corolla 17-20 mm long, pink to white-pink, hairy on the plaits outside, the tube glabrous. Ovary glabrous, on a disc. Capsule ovoid or obovoid, 6 mm long. Seed 1, dark brown, 3.5 mm long, hirsute.

Fl. Per.: May-July. Fr. Per.: June-July.

Type: USSR, Dzuhngaria- Tarbagatai (Koksu-River), Schrenk s.n. (LE).

B-6 Chitral, Birmoglasht, 7-8000’, Siddiqi & Rehman 26848 (RAW), id., Zaffar Ali 10324 (RAW), rd. to Bombrait, c.7500 ft., Y. Nasir 5047 (RAW), Baluchistan : G-2 Makran Dist.: 2 miles from Sunstar on way to Mand, Qaiser, A. Raza & A. Hussain 1023 (KUH), 50 miles from Mand on way to Sunstar, in dry river bed, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 269 (KUH), 12 miles from Mand, Ali, Farooki & Sultanul Abedin 1676 (KUH).

Distribution: Iran. Afghanistan, Pakistan, USSR (Uzbekistan, Kazakhistan, Turkmenia).

Found on the N. Western region of Pakistan (Chitral), and Makran Dist. at 1500-3300 m, in dry river beds, gravelly sandy soils and rocky hillocks.