Annual to 30 cm, erect, stellate-hairy, the branches ascending or spreading, longer than in the following species. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, with relatively short petioles, entire, obtusish, stellate-hairy on both sides, on the average 1-3 cm long. Staminate flowers in a short spiciform inflorescence at the ends of stem and branches. Perianth segments 3, oblong or obovate, stellate-hairy. Pistillate perianth 3-partite, hairy and stellate-pubescent. Fruit rounded-oval to obovate, 2-2.2 x 1.5-1.75 mm, strongly compressed laterally, concentrically wrinkled, dull, dark-brown, terminating in 2 very short scarious distant teeth (1/8 as long as fruit) often with minute denticles between them.

Type: Siberia, Herb. Linn. 1101/5 (LINN).

A species of stony and gravelly slopes; Distribution: N and C. Asia, Kashmir.