Strongly curry-scented annual to 40 cm high. Leaves basal and subtending branches, 3-pinnatisect, to 15 cm long, 2.5 cm wide; ultimate segments narrow-linear. Pedicel becoming thickened and strongly recurved in fruit. Sepals ovate, 2–2.5 mm long. Outer petals rhombic or obscurely trilobed, 6–11 mm long, pale yellow; inner petals deeply trilobed, 5–8 mm long, yellow, flecked purplish brown, with the mid-lobe fringed on the dilated apical part. Stamens with winged filaments, brown-spotted. Style subequal to inner petals. Fruit 4-angled, linear to slightly arcuate, 4–6 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, c. 9-seeded, tardily breaking into articles. Seeds D-shaped, flattened, c. 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, brown, minutely areolate.
Occurs in sandy soil, recorded growing with cereal crops and along nearby roadsides, and in clearings in mallee scrub.
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