Plants small to large shrubs or small tress. Leaves opposite, entire, with simple or stellate hairs. Inflorescences panicles of white-woolly, spikelike branches. Flowers solitary in the axils of the bracts, all bisexual and ferile; tepals 5, linear, with a thick tuft of white, flexuous hairs at the base, also white hairy over the entire dorsal surface, outer 2 tepals wider than the inner two, the middle tepal intermediate; stamens 5, filaments united into a tube in their lower half, upper halves free and narrowly tongue shaped on the upper hald, pseudostamindes not present; ovaries with 1 ovule; styles 1,slender, with capitate stigma. Fruits thin-walled capsules, firm distally.
Chionothrix has two species. both native to northeast Africa. Only one, Chinothrix somalensis, is known from Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.