It is a shrub or small tree to about 6–8 m tall, native around the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Lebanon and Syria in the north and from the Canary Islands to Tunisia in the south.

Its twigs are dark brown, initially with short hairs (tomentose), later smooth (glabrous).

The upper surface of the leaf is green, the lower greyish with prominent veins.

S. pedicellata flowers in early Spring – February to April in its native habitat.

pedicellata is native to some of the countries around the Mediterranean, in Europe (Portugal, Spain, Sicily, mainland Greece, Crete, doubtfully mainland Italy), western North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Western Asia (the East Aegean Islands, Turkey and Lebanon-Syria).