Subshrub to 45 x 100 cm, ± prostrate to ascending, hispidulous or ± glabrous with rancid smell. Woody branches pale brown, rarely light grey. Annual branches straight, glaucous with oblique to divaricate lateral branches. Lower leaves slightly clasping, 0-1 mm decurrent, with curly hairs in their axils; semiterete, linear, 3-14 x 1.1-c.2 mm, basal with very narrow membranous margins; above semiterete to three-edged, linear to triangular-ovate, acuminate, 1.5-3 x 1.4-2.4 mm, basal with narrow membranous margins. Flowers mainly on lateral branches, 1-6 mm distant. Bracts of lower flowers semiterete 3-4.6 x 1.5-2.9 mm, above scale-like, broadly ovate-triangular, 1.4-3 x 1.5-2.9 mm. Bracteoles scale-like 1.7-2.6 x 1.7-2.6 mm, ovate with elongated apex. Tepals 3.2-3.7 mm long. Anthers 2-2.3 mm long, appendage rounded acutish. Disc unlobed. Style in fruit bottle-shaped. Stigmas apically tapering, not denticulate. Fruit 7-11 mm in diam. Tube ± cylindrical, with straight or slightly concave sides with prominent ridges; pits moderately deep, ovate. Wings below the middle. Tepals above wings in lower parts distinctly keeled, forming a steep cone.

Fl. Per.: July-October.

Type: Iran, “in ditione Daschtistan in declivibus sterilissimis prope Daleki”, 11.10.1902, Alexeenko 957 (LE).

Distribution: S. Persia and SW Pakistan (Baluchistan).