Annual, stem 10-45 cm, glabrous to subglabrous. Leaflets 7-18 mm long, obovate to cuneate, mostly retuse, dentate; stipules laciniate. Inflorescence a 1-5-flowered peduncled raceme, peduncle longer than the petiole. Calyx c. 3.5 mm long, teeth almost equal to the tube. Corolla about twice the calyx, yellow. Fruit discoid, with 3-7 coils, 4-5 mm broad, glabrous.

Fl.Per.: March-April.

Lectotype: Morison, Hist.t.151.1.1680 (Heyn l.c. 1959).

Distribution: Pakistan [N.W.F. Province, Baluchistan (Burkill, List Fl.Pl. Baluch. 1909)]; Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria; Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Russia (Caucasus), S. Europe, Tunisia, Algeria; Morocco.