Erect-stemmed, succulent shrublet, with tubercled stems, up to 100 mm tall, 8-15 mm diam., leafless below. Leaves deciduous, fusiform, 30-100 x 2-5 mm, woolly in axils. Flowerheads in branching corymbs on naked peduncles up to 200 mm long, well exserted above leaves and woolly in branch-bract axils, discoid, whitish; involucre cylindrical, 3-5 mm diam., bracts 10-15, 6-8 x ± 1 mm, bracteoles 1-3, subulate.