Leafless succulent perennial root parasite with unbranched stems measuring 20 cm up to 1 meter with a stem measuring 3 cm or wider. Flowers are organised in a a spike that emerge directly from the sand in early spring. Its conical shape enables it to break out of the ground upwards. The inflorescence lengthens, and the flowering advances from the bottom upwards, with all flowering stage on the same spike. The showy flower are yellow all over measuring up to 4 cm made up of a long tube, which opens into five rounded teeth. The bracts are irregulary crenualte, ranging creamy-white to purple. Calyx campanulate with obtuses lobes, crenulate and the large corolla measures up to 20 mm, 5-lobed, sub-labiate with a curved tube. Stamens are included with wolly-hairy anthers. The fruit is a capsule with numerous tiny alveolate seeds and dried plant can remain several years standing. In early spring, a fleshy and dense inflorescence emerges from the ground, which is made up of imbricate buds.