Very rare.
A small, annual, glabrous herb with narrowly winged stems. Leaves are fleshy; cauline leaves are sessile, broadly obovate, and usually caducous; the umbellar leaves are broadly ovate. Inflorescence is a pedunculate cyathia. Involucre with fringed lobes bearing red glands with two slender horns. Fruit is a broadly ovoid capsule, 3-lobed and glabrous; it encloses cylindrical-hexagonous seeds with two longitudinal furrows and four rows of deep, transverse pits.
Mediterranean region and Sinai.
Egypt.
Cultivated ground.
Annual.
Endemic.
