Appressed-pubescent annual. Stems are much-branched, erect or ascending, wiry, sulcate, purplish. Leaves are 1-2 x 0.5-1 cm, oblong-obovate in outline, pinnatisect. Lobes are 1-3 x 0.5 mm, oblong-linear, mucronate. Peduncle is 1.5-4.5 cm, purplish; peduncle in fruit wiry, very slightly thickened. Capitula is 1-1.5 cm diameter. Phyllaries are 2- seriate, 2.5-3 x 0.5 mm, oblong-linear, densely hairy, the margins scarious. The apex is obtuse, and the midrib is green. Receptacle is conical. Paleae is 2-2.5 x 0.4 mm, oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious; ray florets female, fertile, the limb 6-8 x 3-4 mm, oblong-elliptic, white, corolla-tube of disc florets 1.5 mm. Achenes c. 0.5 mm, ribbed, rounded at the apex, black.
Mareotic Sector, North Sinai.
Sandy soils.
Annual.
Height: 15-30 cm.
Endemic.
