Aspalathus acidota Garab. ex R.Dahlgren

A rigid, much branched shrub up to more than 1 m tall; young branches rigid tomentose-villous. Leaflets flat or somewhat keeled, narrowly lanceolate, (4-)8-14 x (0.5-)1.5-2.5 mm, rigid, slightly recurved, somewhat veiny, ciliate and with sparse spreading hairs, tapering into a long, sharp spine. Inflorescence a terminal head of (4-)7-12 flowers. Bract narrowly lanceolate, 8-18 x 1-2 mm, similar to but more pubescent than the leaflets of the vegetative leaves. Pedicel ±1 mm long or less, pubescent. Bracteoles linear, 7-14 mm long, spine-tipped. Calyx tube white-woolly or sericeous, the lobes linear, 7-10 mm long, linear-subulate, ciliate, each ending as a sharp, glabrous spine. Petals bright yellow, partly becoming reddish. Standard blade obovate or circular, 8-10 x 9-10 mm, obtuse or retuse, white-tomentose (or sericeous) on most of the back. Wing blades oblong, 7-8 x ±3 mm, broadest on apical half, glabrous or with a few apical hairs. Keel blades 6-7 x ±3.5 mm, sericeous on most of apical half. Pistil pubescent on the whole ovary and on the style base; ovules 5 or 6. Pod obliquely ovate, ±7 x 3.7 mm, pubescent.