Annual small herb. Stem simple or branched, ascending, 1-8 cm high. Leaves simple, opposite, sessile, connate at the base, entire, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, 2.2-7 x 0.3-1 mm. Inflorescence axillary cyme. Flowers in dense cluster in leaf axil, minute, 3-5 merous, bisexual, pedicel 0.5-4 mm. Sepals free, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous, 0.9-2 x 0.2-0.5 mm. Petals free, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.8 x 0.2-0.3 mm. Stamens 3-5, basifixed, dithecous, 0.5-1 mm long,. Nectar scale spathulate 0.2-0.3 mm long. Carpels 3-5. Follicles 3-5, 0.6-0.8 x 0.2-0.3 mm. Seeds 2 per fruit, 0.2-0.35 x 0.15-0.2 mm, ellipsoid, dark brown, apex blunt.

Fl. Per.: February-April.

Type: Egypt: in paludosis prope Kahirum (GE).

Grows between 700-1600 m in boulders, gravels and crevices; Distribution: Sicily, Crete, Cyperus, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir and India.