Prostrate annual herb with dense soft appressed hairs. Leaves alternate 2-2.5 cm long; stipules ovate, 3-4 mm long; leaflets 4-6 pairs, sessile, unequal sided, oblong-elliptic, 4-5 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, acute. Flowers pale yellow, 10-12 mm across; pedicels 6-8(-10) mm long. Sepals lanceolate, c. 4 mm long, acute. Petals obovate, 5-6 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, obtuse. Stamens 10, filaments as long as sepals. Ovary subglobose, densely hairy, style short. Fruit 10-15 mm in diameter, pyramidal; mericarps without spines and wings, densely pilose.

Fl.Per.: April-August.

Type: Sahara centralis, Mouydir Oued Arak, Maire 284.

Distribution: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, North Africa, Chad, Niger and Somalia.