Perennial caespitose herb; shoots up to 8 cm long, 1-4-leaved, erect, densely covered with soft, short, whitish, branched hairs. Radical leaves densely rosulate, narrowly oblong or linear, 5-15 mm long, 1-2.5 mm broad, entire, tomentose, apex rounded or obtuse; cauline leaves oblong-ovate, sessile, 0-1-dentate. Racemes 10-15-flowered, corymbose, hardly increasing in length in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, white; pedicel 2-4 mm long in fruit, tomentose. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals 2 mm long, 1 mm broad. Stamens c. 1 :1.5 mm long. Siliculae oblong-ovate, flattened, often contorted or twisted, 3.5-5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, sub-glabrous or sparsely pubescent with minute branched hairs; style c. 0.5 mm long with minute depressed stigma; septum not veined; seeds 3-6 in each locule, c. 0.7 mm long, ovate-oblong brown.

Fl. Per.: June-Aug.

Type: N. W. Himalaya Soongnum, Royle (LIV).

Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, N.W. Himalaya and W. Tibet.