Aspalathus bodkinii Bolus

A prostrate little shrublet, densely branched, and more or less matted on the (sandy) ground. Basal main branches occasionally up to more than 10 mm thick, but finest branches slender and sometimes with some long, peduncle-like internodes, covered with white-sericeous pubescence. Leaves trifoliolate, those on long-shoots soon with axillary short-shoot, and leaflets therefore appearing in fascicles. Leaflets elliptic-oblong(-circular),(0.5-)1-2(-5.5) x 0.2-2.2 mm, usually densely silvery sericeous, rarely green and sparsely hairy. Inflorescence generally unifloral, consisting of a single flower situated in the axil of its bract. A lateral quick-growing branchlet often developed in the axil of the uppermost (trifoliolate) leaf forming a sympodium. Bract ovate(-circular), 2-3.5 x 1-3.5 mm, acute, sericeous. Pedicel very short. Bracteoles oblanceolate, 1.5-3 x less than 1 mm, sericeous. Calyx campanulate, sericeous; lobes shorter than the tube, broadly ovate-rounded, 1.5-3 x 2.5 mm, obtuse or subacute, sericeous. Petals light yellow. Standard blade elliptic, 5-8 x 3.5-6 mm, obtuse, short-sericeous on the back. Wing blade linear-oblong, 5.5-7.5 x 3 mm, sericeous on lower half or less, with some rows of minute folds on the basal third. Keel blades lunate, 4-5.5 x 2-2.5 mm, almost completely sericeous. Pistil sericeous on ovary and style base; ovules 2. Pod ± enclosed in the calyx, triangular-ovate, ±5 x 2.5 mm, silvery sericeous, probably indehiscent.