Aspalathus burchelliana Benth.

An erect or ascending shrub, probably up to 0.8 m tall, with rather robust, sparingly branched, tail-like branches, densely short-villous on the young parts and with semi-globose short-shoot tubercles. Leaflets linear, thickly pinniform, 8-22 x 0.8-1.2 mm, subterete to slightly flattened, with a longitudinal groove on the upper as well as the lower side, pale green, rather rigid, acute (to mucronate), sparsely ad-pressed-puberulous, glabrescent. Inflorescences with 1-3 flowers close together, on short-shoots distributed along the branches. Flowers rather small and inconspicuous. Bract appearing on the pedicel 1-1.5 mm from its base, broadly subulate, 1-2.2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, acute, puberulous adaxially. Pedicel 2-3.5 mm long, short-villous. Bracteoles 1-1.7 x 0.2-0.3 mm. Calyx densely and smoothly short-sericeous; lobes triangular, 1.2-2 mm long, ± puberulous. Petals light yellow, wing and keel claws rather broad, slightly shorter than blades. Standard blade 7.7-8.5 x 6.5-7.2 mm, obtuse, short-sericeous on most of the back except marginal parts below the middle. Wing blades 4.3-5.5 x 2.1-2.4 mm, glabrous, with an oblique major fold across the middle, and with ±3 rows of minute folds. Keel blades 5.2-5.7 x 2.9-3.4 mm, sericeous on lower apical half. Pistil sericeous on ovary and style base; ovules 2. Pod broadly lanceolate, ±7.5 x 3.7 mm, sericeous at least on the apical and lower parts.