An appressed-hairy, annual herb with procumbent or ascending stems branched mainly from the base. Leaves are spathulate in outline, rather fleshy, with thickened margins, oblong-linear mucronate leaf-lobes and, sometimes minute, pectinate teeth near the base. Capitula is pedunculate and infundibular, radiate with broadly elliptic, white female ray florets; corolla-tube of disc florets. Fruit is an obconical to almost cylindrical achene, obscurely ribbed, smooth, and white, with truncate apex that has a short crown.
Nile Valley North of Nubia at Delta, Mareotic Sector, North Sinai, Isthmic Desert, Galala Desert.
Egypt, Palestine.
Sandy coastal soils.
Annual.
Height: 5-25 cm.
