Aspalathus cuspidata R.Dahlgren

A low but rather wide, diffusely branched shrublet, 0.15-0.3 m tall; branches slender, weak, straight, divaricate. Young branches pale yellow to pale orange, with sparse, half-appressed pubescence. Leaves rather sparsely set. Leaflets rather sparsely set. Leaflets spreading, subulate-acicular, (2.5-)3-6 mm long, 0.7-0.9 mm thick at the (slightly widened) base, glabrous, slightly recurved, ending as a very sharp spinelet. Inflorescence terminal, with 2 or 3 closely set flowers. Lateral long-shoots developed in axils of uppermost 2 or 3 leaves and soon superceding the inflorescence to form a sympodium. Flowers rather small. Bract subulate-acicular, 1.4-2 mm long, spine-tipped. Pedicel 1.2-1.8 mm long, puberulous. Bracteoles 1.2-1.8 mm long. Calyx tube with sparse, short, appressed hairs; lobes triangular, green, glabrous, 1.9-2.6 mm long, tapering into sharp spinelets. Petals pale or light yellow. Standard blade 5.8-6.5 x 4.5-5 mm, short-sericeous on apical half or two-thirds of the back; apex rather incurved. Wing blades 4.2-4.5 x 1.7-2 mm, glabrous or with few hairs on the lower parts. Keel blades upcurved at almost right angles, 4.5-5 mm from base to apex, ±2.5 mm broad near middle, obtuse, with S-curved upper margin, short-sericeous only along the lower margin. Pistil short-sericeous on the upper parts of the ovary and style base. Pod triangular-lanceolate, ±9 mm long or more.