An annual puberulous herb with glabrous prostrate to ascending stems. Leaves are finely divided, pinnatifid or serrate. Inflorescence is an axillary raceme, long and elongate in fruit. Flowers are minute and greenish with scarious margined sepals and rudimentary shorter petals. Fruit is a didymous, indehiscent siliqua, reticulate rugose, emarginated at the tip, with a narrow septum, and one reniform seed per locule, finely reticulate.
Nile region, oases and eastern desert.
East Africa, Arabia.
Moist ground, Nile and canal banks.
Annual.
