Sweet smelling, rigidly-branched, leafless-looking shrub up to 80 cm tall. Stems glaucous green, terete often with a whitish bloom. Leaves cadous ; lower cauline leaves reduced to petiolar sheath pinnately divided into a few linear lobes ; upper cauline leaves reduced to broadly scarious margined sheath with short, linear-subulate tip. Umbels with short, thick peduncles, 3-5-rayed, with caducous bracts and bracteoles. Fruits ovoid densely covered with a white wool, topped with an undulate disc and erect styles.