Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren

A procumbent to ascending, rather sparsely branched shrublet with straight, rigid, spreading branches 0.3-0.8 m long; young branches densely short-villous. Leaflets spreading (not pressed against the branches), linear, 1.5-2.5(-3.5) mm long, succulent, 0.4-0.7 mm, convex, succulent, abaxially glabrous, mucronulate. Pedicel 1.5-2.2 mm long, short-tomentose. Bracteoles 0.4-1 mm long. Calyx tube ±2 mm long, subglabrous or with scattered short hairs; lobes triangular, 1-1.8 mm long including an apical cusp ±0.5 mm long, glabrous, green, slightly carnose. Petals light yellow or standard partly violet. Standard blade 5.8-8 x 3.2-6.3 mm, apically rounded to acute, short-sericeous on apical half and on base of back. Wing blades 2.9-4.7 x 1.4-2 mm, glabrous. Keel rostrate, attenuate (hence the specific name), 5-6 mm long, 2.1-2.8 mm broad at middle, apically prolonged but obtuse, glabrous. Pistil short-sericeous on upper parts of ovary and upper side of style base; style slender, curved. Pod broadly triangular-lanceolate, 7.5-8.5 x 3-3.2 mm, very sparsely appressed-puberulous on most parts.