Aspalathus collina Eckl. & Zeyh.

An erect or ascending shrublet or shrub 0.3-1.3 m tall, sparingly or (more often) rather densely branched, with rigid branches. Young branches short-tomentose. Leaflets 0.3-15 mm long, straight, stiff, spine-tipped. Inflorescences terminal, with 1 or 2 flowers, or unifloral on lateral short-shoots. Bract lanceolate to obcordate-circular, 1.5-4 x 0.5-2 mm, subglabrous (marginally ciliate). Pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles 1.5-4.2 x 0.5-2 mm. Calyx campanulate, glabrous or (subsp. luculenta) woolly; lobes 1.5-4.2 mm long. Petals yellow or standard ± red or purplish. Standard blade 1-9 x 6.5-8.5 mm, sometimes pubescent on apical-marginal parts or midrib of back and on the base, otherwise glabrous. Wing blades 6-8 x 3.3-4.2 mm. Keel ± carnose, blades lunate or slightly upcurved (subrostrate), 5.7-6.7 x 3-4 mm, glabrous. Pistil pubescent on basal upper parts of ovary only; ovules 4. Pod narrowly and obliquely ovate, 8-10.5 x 3.5-4 mm, rugose.