Retrorsely strigose-hispid, branching annual. Stems 30-100 cm high, striate to slightly angular. Basal leaves simple, cordate; lower cauline leaves 1-2-pinnate, leaflets rounded to ovate, terminal cordate, all crenate; upper cauline leaves simple or with basal lobes, ovate to lanceolate, serrate. Umbels 15-25-rayed, rays slender, scabrous, unequal, ascending after anthesis. Bracts 12-18, linear, scabrous with short marginal teeth, deflexed; bracteoles 5, linear, setaceous to ciliate, very unequal in length, scabrous, longest ones 2 x as long as fruiting pedicels. Flowers white, 15-25 per umbellule. Mericarps broadly elliptic to ovate, 3,5-5 mm long, 2,5-3 mm broad, all strongly compressed and with smooth thickened margins; abaxial face with short vesicular hairs. Dorsal vittae 4, commissural 2. Fl. 4-6. Open hillsides, fields, roadbanks, 270-700 m.

Crete, Cyprus, W. Syria, Syrian Desert. E. Medit. element.