Aspalathus aristifolia R.Dahlgren

A procumbent to prostrate shrublet with main branches up to longer than 1 m. Branchlets ascending or spreading, densely villous-to-mentulose, closely leafy. Leaflets spreading, subulate-acicular, 1.5-4(-5) mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm thick at the base, straight (or slightly recurved), rigid, glabrous or sparsely tomentose, tapering into a sharp, yellow spinelet 1 mm long or more. Flowers solitary or in pairs on the tips of densely leafy branches. Bract subulate-acicular, 2.3-3.2 mm long, ± puberulous basally, tapering into a ±1 mm long spinelet. Pedicel ±1 mm long, white-villous. Bracteoles 1.4-2.8 mm long. Calyx tube ±1.5 mm long, white-tomentulose; lobes narrowly triangular, 1.4-3.3 mm long, ending in a 0.5-1.6 mm long, yellowish spinelet. Petals lemon-yellow or ± violet on keel and standard back. Standard blade 5.5-7.5 x 3.8-5.5 mm, apically slightly incurved, acute, densely white-tomentulose on the back. Wing blades 3.3-4.5 x (1.2-)1.4-1.8 mm, with some tomentulose pubescence on the lower part. Keel lunate, 4.5-5.5(-6.2) x 2.2-2.8 mm, obtuse (but sometimes with a little 'tip' below the apex), white-tomentulose (to partly sericeous) on most parts, with slightly convex upper margin. Pistil pubescent on upper parts of the ovary and style base. Pod triangular-lanceolate, 6.8-8 x 2.7-3.7 mm, tomentose(-villous) on most parts.