Annual, up to 20 cm tall, suberect or decumbent, branched, usually clothed with stellate hairs. Leaves oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, 5-25 mm long, 1.5-4 mm broad, sessile, entire, acute. Racemes 15-30-flowered, up to 8 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 2 mm across, yellowish; pedicel up to 4 mm long in fruit, filiform, deflexed. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals about as long or little longer than the sepals. Stamens c. 1:1.5 mm long; filaments appendaged. Siliculae suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, 3.5-4.5 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, apex ± entire with a minute subsessile stigma; valves coriaceous, barbellate with simple rough hairs; seed c. 1.5 mm in diam., suborbicular, hardly winged, brown.

Fl. Per.: March-June.

Type: Tournefort Coroll. 14.

Distribution: N. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Pamir-Alai.