| In some genera the unlobed, usually alternate leaves are reduced to scalelike structures. |
| The hairs are either in groups, scalelike, or stellate. |
| Like many others of the scale bugs, the cochineal males have wings and are not so scalelike as their helpless mates. |
| The plants always have scalelike leaves which soon fall off. |
| The leaves are spreading and awl-shaped on young shoots but are characteristically small, scalelike, and appressed to the branch on older branchlets. |
| The leaves are peculiar in structure, appearing as a whorl of reduced scalelike structures at each node. |
