Sturdy erect branched shrub, 2-3 m, greyish white, peeling bark on older stem. Leaves alternate, ovate-deltoid, or oblong ovate, up to 6 x 4 cm, silver grey, entire-repand lobed, subhastate, obtuse, mucronulate or emarginate, petiolate, petiole 0.3-1.0 cm. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, leafless. Glomerules many-flowered forming congested lateral and terminal spikes. Male flowers: perianth small, very few in number than female flowers. Fruits many, condensed, often horizontally spreading; bracts thick-textured, fused at base, reniform, broad triangular to orbicular, 3.5-4 x 5-6 mm, entire or serrate dentate, without tubercles. Seeds 1.5 mm, brown-dark brown.
Shrub or woody herb, procumbent or sprawling (probably always so in the Flora Zambesiaca area) to suberect, 0.5–3 m. high, densely mealy all over so that the whole plant is whitish to pale grey-green.
Leaves ovate to oblong or elliptic in outline, 1–4 cm. long, 0.4–2.5 (3) cm. wide, rounded to acute at apex, cuneate to attenuate at base, entire or sometimes with 1 (2) obscure shallow lobes or teeth.
Inflorescence a terminal panicle with the ultimate branches spiciform and mostly leafless; lower flower clusters in leaf axils.
Fruiting bracteoles sessile, their basal connate part absent or very short, up to 1.5 mm.; free apical part of each bracteole reniform to broadly deltoid-ovate, as broad as or more commonly broader than long, 2.5–7 mm. long, 3–9 mm. wide, acute to rounded at apex, cordate or sometimes truncate or very broadly cuneate at base, smooth to conspiciously muricate or tuberculate in centre; margins on either side with 1–4 obscure to pronounced teeth.
Fruiting bracteoles sessile, their basal connate part absent or very short indeed (to 1.5 mm.); free apical part of each bracteole reniform to broadly deltoid-ovate, as broad as or more commonly broader than long, 2.5–6 mm. long, 3–8 mm. wide, acute to rounded at apex, cordate or sometimes truncate or very broadly cuneate at base.
Shrub or woody herb, much branched, 0.5–3 m. high, densely mealy all over so that the whole plant is whitish to pale grey-green.
Leaves ovate to oblong or elliptic, mostly 1–4 cm. long, 0.4–2.5 (–3) cm. wide, rounded to acute at apex, broadly or narrowly cuneate at base, entire or sometimes with a projecting lateral lobe on each side in lower part.
Inflorescence a terminal panicle with spiciform mostly leafless ultimate branchlets.
