Polpoda capensis C.Presl

A silvery-gray woody shrublet, 20-50 cm high, erect or sprawling. Branches distant, in groups of 2 or 3, ascending or divaricate. Leaves covering the stems, overlapping, oblong-linear, 2-4 mm long, acute, usually bent outwards at the tips. Stipules membranous, lacerate, longer than and partly covering the leaves. Flowers sessile, numerous; bracts 3-fid, 4 mm or more wide at the base, the central lobe linear 2 mm long, acute, more or less recurved and soon deciduous, the lateral lobes shorter, 1 mm long; stipules large, like those of the leaves. Bracteoles small, green, ovate, subacute. Perianth shorter than the bracts, the segments 4, hairy on the back, membranous and lacerate at the tip. Stamens free; filaments 2-3 times as long as the yellow or orange anthers.