Compilation
Chionothrix somalensis

Varying in habit from a low cushion-like shrublet of c. 20 cm to a tall, woody, much-branched shrub up to 3 m, furnished in the vegetative parts with short and ± glandular to multicellular white hairs, old branches and stems pale brown to blackish, glabrescent. Main stem and branch leaves broadly oblong-elliptic to obovate, scarcely more densely pilose below than on the upper surface, c. 8–20 x 7–10 mm, often darkening when dry; petiole distinct, to c. 5 mm. Inflorescences c. 2–7 x 1.5–2 cm, usually solitary, rarely branched below. Tepals ± concealed in the white hairs; outer 2 broadly linear, 6.5–8.5 mm, 5–7-nerved, hyaline-margined, rather obtuse, cucullate; inner 2 narrowly linear, mostly 3-nerved, rather acute, ± cucullate, more broadly hyaline-margined; middle tepal intermediate. Style slender, 4–4.5 mm. Capsule ovoid, c. 2 mm.