Annual? or biennial? herbs 30-60 cm high with spreading branches in the upper part. Stems puberulous with short, ± clavate hairs. Lower stem leaves sub-bipinnatipartite with spreading or ± recurved, narrow, acute, linear-lanceolate lobes, or some few leaves oblanceolate, pinnatifid. Upper leaves pinnatipartite with short lobes; all leaves completely glabrous or occasionally the petioles sparsely ciliolate. Racemes terminal, in fruit elongate, lax; rhachis puberulous. Pedicels puberulous on the upper surface; in fruit 1.5-3.5 mm long, slender, ascending or arcuate. Sepals 0.7-0.8 mm long, oblong, with membranous margins. Petals 0-2 mm long. Stamens 2; filaments subulate. Nectaries small, triangular. Siliculae 2.2-3 x 1.7-1.8 mm, ovate-oblong, or ovate, fairly deeply emarginate with the lobes frequently converging; style shorter than the sinus. Seeds 1.3-1.4 x 0.6-0.7 mm, red-brown.
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