Aspalathus aspalathoides (L.) R.Dahlgren

A moderately or sparingly branched, erect or ascending shrublet or shrub, 0.15-0.4 m tall. Young branches woolly tomentose. Leaves of the young branches generally not (yet) with axillary short-shoots. Leaflets flat, linear or lanceolate, (5-)10-20 x 2-6 mm, weak, coriaceous or rigid, acute or subobtuse, green, veiny or almost smooth (midvein distinct) and subglabrous or with sparse rather long hairs. Inflorescence a terminal head of 6-20 subsessile flowers, subtended by one or two of the uppermost leaves (which may look like an involucre). Bract linear or subfiliform, weak, 3-8 mm long, sparsely long-pubescent. Bracteoles similar to the bract or short, 1-6 mm long. Calyx tube covered with long, ± white-sericeous to somewhat spreading pubescence; lobes linear-subulate, 3.5-6 mm long, weak, tapering, sometimes with distinct midvein, with sparse long hairs. Petals bright yellow, often partly reddish on standard. Standard blade elliptic, 8-13 x 5.5-13 mm, obtuse-refuse, densely sericeous on the back. Wing blades elongate, oblong or broadest on apical half, 7-12 x 2.2-2.8 mm, pubescent on lower basal half or less. Keel blades 5.5-8 x 2.5-4 mm, with straight or slightly upcurved upper margin, hairy on most parts. Pistil: ovary sericeous on most parts; ovules 2; style glabrous. Pods not seen.