Aspalathus caespitosa R.Dahlgren

A densely branched, compact, prostrate or cushion-like shrublet, with main branches up to more than 0.2 m long, creeping on or just below the surface of the ground. Young branches short-villous, very densely leafy. Leaflets linear, (1.5-)3-6 mm long, ±0.3 mm thick or less, subterete, slightly incurved, obtuse or subacute, with minute sparse hair base tubercles and few, short, spreading hairs. Inflorescences unifloral, on branchlet tips, the rather small flowers surrounded basally by the uppermost leaves. Bract simple, linear, similar to a vegetative leaflet, 5-6 mm long. Pedicel short, short-tomentose. Bracteoles similar to the bract, 4-5 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, with sparse spreading hairs; lobes subulate-linear, 3.5-4 mm long, green, weak, pointed, with sparse, spreading hairs on minute tubercles. Petals yellow to ferruginous (-red). Standard broadly obtriangular-obovate, 7.5-8.5 x 8-8.5 mm, short-tomentose on the back, glabrous on the front; apex with a short 'tip'. Wing blades very narrowly elliptic, 5.2-6 x 2-2.5 mm. Keel blades lunate, 5.5-6 x ±3 mm, glabrous, with very slightly concave upper margin. Wing and keel claws ±3.5-4 (-4.5) mm long, adnate to the staminal sheath for at least half the length. Pistil pubescent only on apical third of the ovary. Pod obliquely ovate, ±5.5 x 2.5 mm, smooth, pubescent on apical parts.