Aspalathus biflora E.Mey.

A decumbent to ascending shrublet, from sparsely to rather much branched, with slender but rigid and often straight branches; young branches densely puberulous; floriferous branchlets often with 1-2 long (sometimes peduncle-like) internodes. Leaflets linear, 2-12 mm long, terete, often broadest apically, straight or slightly curved, glabrous, mucronulate (not very prickly). Inflorescence terminal, consisting of 1-3(-5) flowers, when several then sometimes separated by internodes up to 4 mm long. Bract minute, ovate to broadly linear, 0.5-1.7 x ±0.3 mm. Pedicel 1-3 mm long, puberulous or subglabrous. Bracteoles 0.4-1 mm long. Calyx tube glabrous, rather smooth; lobes triangular, usually deltoid, 0.3-1.7 mm long, glabrous, green, mucronate or mucronulate (not with a sharp spine as in A. serpens). Petals pale or light yellow, orange-coloured or ferruginous, often darkish on standard. Standard blade 5.3-8.5(-9.3) x (3.5-)4-7(-7.5) mm, obtuse or acute, short-sericeous on most of the back. Wing blades narrowly obovat, 3-5.8(-6.7) x 1.2-2.3 mm, glabrous. Keel blade lunate, upcurved, the upper part apically usually squarish (subsp. biflora) rarely subrostrate (subsp. longicarpa); 4-5.7(-7) x 2-2.8(-3.3) mm, glabrous (or with some hairs apically); basal puckering indistinct or lacking. Pistil pubescent on upper parts of ovary and on style base; ovules 2-6. Pod triangular-lanceolate, (8-)9.5-21.5 x (2.8-)3.5-4.8 mm, smooth, sparsely short-sericeous.