Monoecious, softly woody, roughly hairy shrublet, up to 0.8 m tall, often with red stems. Leaves ovate, discolorous, usually grey-felted beneath, margins revolute, with 3-7 pairs of teeth. Flowers in axillary clusters, greenish, lobes of surrounding involucre ovate to broadly obovate, enlarging in fruit.
Monoecious, softly woody, roughly hairy shrublet to 80 cm, often with red stems. Leaves ovate, discolorous, usually grey-felted beneath, coarsely toothed, margins revolute. Flowers in axillary, involucrate clusters, greenish, involucre lobes enlarging in fruit.
Base of plant often woody. Leaves 10-75 x 6-40 mm, margin with 3-7 pairs of broad irregular teeth; petiole 6-30 mm long. Inflorescence with (4-)5-9(-11)-lobed involucre, dimensions of lobes as in key, otherwise as for genus.