Densely grey appressed-canescent annual plant. Stems are branched from the base, terete, slightly grooved. Leaves are 1-3 x 0.3-1.6 cm, oblong-obovate in outline, 1-2-pinnatisect; ultimate lobes are 1-6 x 0.5-1.5 mm, oblong-linear, mucronate. Peduncle is 1-7 cm, slightly thickened and indurate in fruit. Capitula is 1.5-2.5 cm diameter. Phyllaries 3.5-5 x 0.8-1 mm, 2-seriate, broadly lanceolate, appressed-canescent, the margins scarious, the apex obtuse; receptacle conical; paleae 3-4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, oblanceolate, acuminate to long-acuminate, scarious; ray florets female, fertile, the limb 6-9 x 3-4.5 mm, oblong, white; corolla-tube of disc florets 2-2.5 mm, conspicuously inflated in the lower half; achenes 1.5-1.8 x 0.6-0.8 mm. (excluding the auricle), obconical, distinctly to indistinctly ribbed, strongly to slightly tuberculate, auriculate; auricle ± as long as the achene, unilateral, or achene with a short rim.
Libyan Desert Oases, Nubian Desert Oases, Mareotic Sector, North Sinai, Isthmic Desert at Maghara , Galala Desert, Libyan Desert, Nubian Desert, Gebel Oweinat, South Red Sea Coast, North Red Sea Coast , Mountainous Southern Sinai.
Annual.
Height: 5-25 cm.
