S. aethiopica  (Juniper-leaved stoebe)
A very rigid, erect shrub up to 1.6 m tall, with tightly packed terminal inflorescences and white florets. Leaves variable: from broadly cymbiform to narrowly triangular. Distributed throughout the Western Cape, eastwards to Uniondale and Avontuur and northwards to the Cederberg, growing in dense, moist or dry fynbos at altitudes of 100-1 900 m and flowers from September to November.

S. cyathuloides
Erect or procumbent shrub up to 0.8 m tall, becoming straggly with age. Leaves variable: from ericoid to broad and flat. Capitula in terminal heads of up to 25 mm in diameter. Florets white or pink. Cypselas hairy. Distributed in the Western Cape south of the Langeberg Mountain Range from the Peninsula to Albertinia, growing on flats and mountainous coastal areas below 500 m and flowering from November to January.

S. nervigera (steekblaarslangbos)
Small, erect, stiffly branched, rigid shrublets up to 0.3 m tall. Leaves not twisted, pungent, with a prominent midrib. Capitula loosely arranged in small numbers, bracts up to 8 mm long. Florets white, deeply lobed. Distributed in the Western Cape with disjunct distributions around Riversdale and Albertinia in the east and Rocher Pan in the northwest, growing in deep sand or gravel on sandy flats from sea level to 900 m and flowering from March to April.

S. schultzii
Wiry, profusely branched shrublet up to 0.3 m tall. Leaves very small, diamond-shaped, tightly pressed to the stems, with fringed margins. Capitula in small or larger terminal inflorescences of up to 15 mm diameter. Florets white or pink. Distributed in the Western Cape from De Hoop and Bredasdorp to Gans Bay and inland to Caledon, often in seasonally moist areas and along roadsides and flowering from October to November.