Small, shrubby or perennial herb. 5-15 cm tall, prostrate or suberect, floccose with brownish, short, branched or stellate hairs. Basal or lower leaves rosulate, almost rounded with petioles about as long as the blade, 10-30 mm long, 10-20 (-25) mm broad, distantly crenate to almost entire. Racemes 5-10-flowered, ± lax. Flowers c.10 mm across, pinkish or rose; pedicels very short, inconspicuous, thickened, suberect. Sepals c. 10 mm long, erect, floccose. Petals c. 14 mm long, clawed. Stamens c. 6: 10 mm long; anthers c. 2 mm long. Siliquae 10-14 mm long, 2 mm broad, terete-oblong, often slightly curved above, torulose, with 2 appendages at the apex of valves and below the stigma.

Fl. Per.: March-May.

Type: S. Iran, Aucher Eloy 4075 (G).

Distribution: Iran and Pakistan.

The measurements of leaf breadth in Rech. f. (l.c. 226) is an error; it should be 15-20 mm.