Aspalathus crassisepala R.Dahlgren

Sprawling to prostrate shrublet with branches to 1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets subterete, awl-shaped, usually recurved, succulent, mucronate to spine-tipped. Flowers 2-6 in small, dense heads at tips of branchlets, pale yellow, often violet or rose on back of standard and bottom of keel, wings glabrous, keel apical upper part almost square, glabrous, calyx subglabrous, with prominent ridges, lobes awl-shaped, terete, generally recurved.