Aspalathus argyrophanes R.Dahlgren

An erect, sparingly branched shrub 0.6-1.5 m tall; young branches densely leafy, white-woolly. Leaflets linear, piniform, 10-20 mm long, slightly incurved, rather soft (not rigid), silvery sericeous, with aristate apex. Inflorescences unifloral, distributed along considerable distances of branches. Bract filiform, 3-4.5 mm long, weak, with half-spreading straight hairs. Pedicel ±1 mm long, long-sericeous. Bracteoles 1.7-3.5 mm long. Calyx small in relation to petals; tube 3-3.5 mm long, long-and white-sericeous; lobes triangular-subulate, attenuate, 1.2-2.8 (usually ±2) mm long, weakly sericeous. Petals lemon-yellow. Standard blade broadly obovate, 12.5-15 (-16) x (9.5-)10.5-13 mm, retuse, white-tomentose on the back, glabrous on the front. Wing blades (8-)9-10.5(-11) x 3.2-4 mm, glabrous. Keel blades lunate, 8.2-9(-9.5) x 3.5-4.2 mm, glabrous, obtuse (not tapering-rostrate), with ± straight upper margin. Pistil with very long-woolly ovary and style base; ovules 2. Pod narrowly ovate, 9.5-11.5 x 5.5-6 mm, very long-woolly.