Chloanthes stoechadis is a small, branched under shrub that usually grows to 30–90 cm (12–35 in) high with white woolly stems.

The leaves are arranged opposite, more or less linear, mostly 0.5–5 cm (0.20–1.97 in) long, roughly wrinkled above, white woolly underneath, dull green, and margins rolled under.

The bracts leaf-like, sessile, linear to lance-shaped, 8–17 mm (0.31–0.67 in) long and 1.5–3 m (4 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) wide, wrinkled and blistered on upper surface, woolly underneath, somewhat rough with short, hard protuberances.

[2][3][4] Chloanthes stoechadis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805.

[7][8] This species usually grows near rocky outcrops, on poor sandy soils in woodland, sclerophyll forest and heath north of Jervis Bay in New South Wales.