Pseuderucaria clavata (Boiss. & Reut.) O.E.Schulz, it is an annual, glabrous, glaucous herb; tap root length 8-11 cm. Stem terete, ascending, branching from the base, by 10-40 cm. Leaves are petiolate, fleshy, 1-9 cm long, pinnatisect, with linear, terete, obtuse lobes. Racemes loose, and few flowered. Flowers are conspicuous, ebracteate, pedicellate. Sepals violet, or violet with green tip. The two outer sepals 7.5-10 × 2.5-5 mm, and the two inner sepals 7-9 × 1-1.5 mm. The length of petals with long clawed, is 1.3-2.3, and limb width 0.5-0.7 cm. Filaments of long stamens 7-10 x 0.5-2 mm; anthers yellow, 2-4 x 0.5-1 mm, filaments of short stamens 6 x 0.15 mm; anthers 2.5 x 0.8 mm. Ovary, 5.5-9 x 0.9-1 mm; style short, 0.5-1 x 0.2-1 mm, stigma 0.5 x 0.4-1 mm; pedicel 2-8 x 0.5-1mm, accrescent in fruit. Fruit linear siliqua, 4-6.5 x 0.1-0.15 cm. Seeds are small, brownish, 100-120 per fruit, in 2 rows, ellipsoid, and compressed.
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