Annual, stem reduced or elongated, branched, up to 30 cm, branches pubescent. Leaflets (5-) 7-15, 1-2 cm long, 2-4 mm broad, linear, acute, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below. Inflorescence a pedunculate axillary raceme, peduncle up to 25 cm long. Bracts 1-6 mm long, pilose; pedicel c. 2 mm long. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm long, pubescent, teeth equal to longer than the tube. Corolla dirty yellow to white. Fruit 10-14 mm long, semiborbicular, appressly pilose, disc pitted, margin with ± rounded, acute, 1-1.5 mm long lobes.

Fl.Per.: June.

Type: In promontorio montium Labassy, locis declivibus aridis, Shrenk (LE?). Isotype (K).

Distribution: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia; Iran.