Aspalathus corniculata R.Dahlgren

Small, ascending shrublet, rather freely branched, with rigid, rather slender branches puberulous on the young parts. Short-shoots soon developed in axils of long-shoot leaves. Leaflets (of long-shoot leaves) flat, lanceolate, 3-6 x 1-1.5 mm, keeled-canaliculate, rigid, recurved, glabrous (or subglabrous), tapering into a sharp spinelet ±1 mm long or more. Inflorescence consisting of a terminal group of 2-3 small flowers attached at nearly the same point. Bract subulate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm long, half consisting of an apical spine, ciliate. Pedicel ±0.5 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles subulate, ±2 mm long. Calyx tube short-tomentose; lobes linear-subulate, 4-5 mm long, subglabrous, tapering into a sharp, ± recurved spine; lowest lobe somewhat longer than the others. Petals yellow or ± red. Standard blade ovate, ±6 x 5.3 mm, obtuse, short-hairy on the back. Wing blades oblong, ±4.7 x 1.7 mm, glabrous. Keel blades 5-5.5 x ±2.5 mm, pubescent on the lower parts of the apical half, with convex upper margin. Pistil pubescent on ovary and style base; ovules 4 or 5. Pod lanceolate-fusiform, ±9 x 2.7 mm, smooth, sparsely hairy.