Annual, (3-) 10-15 (-25) cm long in fruits, spreading or ascending, pubescent with short, stellate, whitish hairs, branched mostly from the base with stem and branches glaucous, whitish. Leaves small, narrowly obovate or oblong to linear, sessile, 5-20 mm long, (1-) 2-4 mm broad, entire, pubescent. Racemes (6-) 10-20-flowered, lax, up to 15 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 5 mm across, white or pinkish; pedicels up to 4 mm long in fruit, spreading or subascending, not thickened. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Petals 6-8 mm long, 1 mm broad. Stamens 3-4: 4-5 mm long. Siliquae 10-20 (-25) mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad; valves convex, stellately pubescent, 1-veined, torulose; seeds 3-9 in each locule, c. 1.5 mm in diameter, obscurely to slightly winged.

Fl. Per.: March-April.

Type: Egypt, pyramides, Sieber? (G,K).

Distribution: N. Africa, Arabia, Iran and Pakistan.

A rare species in our area.