Annual, (5-) 10-30 (-40) cm tall, erect, sparsely branched or simple, appressedly hairy with bipartite hairs only. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong-spathulate, entire, lower stalked, upper sessile, 10-50 mm long, 2-8 mm broad, obtuse. Racemes 5-15 (-25) - flowered, up to 15 (-20) cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, yellow; pedicels inconspicuous, c. 1 (-1.5) mm long and thickened in fruit, suberect or ascending. Sepals c. 2.5 mm long. Petals 3-4 (-5) mm long, 1 mm broad. Stamens c. 2: 3 mm long; anthers c. 0.7 mm long. Siliquae linear-terete or subcylindrical, (15-) 20-25 (-30) mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, often straight, subtorulose, appressedly hairy; valves with a distinct mid-rib; stigma sub-bibbed, capitate, subsessile or sessile; seeds 10-15 in each locule, c. 1 mm long, ellipsoid, brown.
Fl. Per.: April-June.
Type: Altai, Salsar-nor, Meyer (LE).
Distribution: C. & S. W. Asia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
It may be confused with the previous two species as already pointed out above. Rechinger f. (l.c. 304 and 305) included Duthie 8589 under this species as well as under Erysimum repandum. Its slightly smaller flowers, short, erect, often sub-appressed or ascending siliquae with only 2-partite hairs are distinctive.
