Annual, prostrate herb, branches scantily pubescent. Leaf pinnately compound, petiole c. 16 mm or less long, scantily pubescent; leaflets 5-7, c. 10 mm or less long, c. 4 mm or less broad, obovate-elliptic, entire, obtuse to retuse, glabrous to subglabrous. Inflorescence a 2-3-flowered axillary or pedunculate cluster; peduncle c. 2 cm or less long. Bracts less than 1 mm. Pedicel c. 1 mm long. Calyx c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous, teeth subequal, c. 1.5 mm long. Vexillum c. 3.5 mm long. Fruit 2-2.5 cm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, glabrous with raised veins, up to 6-seeded.

Fl.Per.: February-March.

Syntypes: Djeddae in arenosis ad mare, 4.3.1836, W.Schimper 939 (K); ‘ad pedem collis prope mare Jeddae', 1837, S. Fischer 82 (K).

Distribution: Pakistan, S.Arabia and Egypt.