Aspalathus bowieana (Benth.) R.Dahlgren

An erect shrub c. 1 m tall or more, branched, with tomentose branches. Branches less densely leafy than in related species. Leaflets linear, piniform, usually 8-13 mm long and 0.5-0.7 mm thick, subterete or slightly flat, rather weak (i.e. not very rigid), with dense, short, silvery sericeous pubescence, ending in an indistinct little mucro. Inflorescences unifloral, often several on each branch. Bract linear-subulate, 1-2.5 mm long, sericeous, with apical mucro. Pedicel ±1 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles 1.2-3 mm long. Calyx globose, or short-campanulate, the tube ±4 mm long, densely short-villous (veluti-nous); lobes short, triangular, only 1.3-2 mm long, mucronulate. Petals light yellow. Standard blade triangular-obovate, 12.5-14.5 x 10-13.5 mm, short-velutinuous on the back and puberulous also on marginal-apical parts of the front. Wing blades 10.5-12 x 3-4 mm, glabrous. Keel blades lunate, 10.5-11.5 x 5-5.7 mm, obtuse, glabrous, with ± straight upper margin. Pistil with densely woolly tomentose ovary (glabrous below) and style base; ovules 2. Pods not seen.