Basal leaves either not persistent or not known, stem leaves simple, toothed, thin.
Flowers in racemes, elongated. Sepals half-spreading.
Siliqua with midvein fading above on convex valves; seeds in 1 row or almost 2 rows per loculus, mostly mucilaginous when wet.
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Leaves sparsely hairy; siliqua more than 1 mm wide; seeds with wing on margin, mucilaginous when wet | Irenepharsus magicus |
| Leaves glabrous; siliqua less than 1 mm wide; seeds without wing, sticky when wet (scarcely mucilaginous) | Irenepharsus trypherus |
