Herbs with erect or ascending branches; leaves fleshy, pinnately lobed or dentate. Flowers pale rose or pale violet; petals clawed, truncate or slightly emarginate; stamens free, style shorter than stamens, stigma depressed-capitate or 2-lobed. At fruiting sepals spreading to suberect, saccate at base, purple. Fruit compressed, elliptical silicle, pendulous on long filiform, horizontal or deflexed pedicel, tipped with an erect style. Valve of a ripe fruit. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows, compressed, with a distinct membranous wing.