Posterior sepal 2 mm. long; wing sepals 5–6.5 x 4–5.5 mm., obliquely suborbicular or rotund; anterior sepals 1.8 mm. long, connate.
Perennial herb (sometimes annual ?) or shrublet up to 1.5 m. tall with slender, erect, slightly winged, glabrous stems.
Seeds 2.5 x 1.5 mm., ellipsoid, with rather short, brownish, appressed hairs; caruncular appendages absent.
Upper petals 3 x 2.5 mm., obliquely and irregularly obovate; carina 6.5 x 3.5 mm., crest 2 mm. long.
Leaves 15–50 x 1–5 mm., linear, grasslike, pointed at the apex, glabrous.
Capsule 5–6 x 3.5–4.5 mm., obliquely oblong, glabrous.
Stamens 8.