Aspalathus globosa Andrews

An erect, moderately to much branched shrub 1.5-2.5 m tall with straight tail-like branches. Branchlets woolly-tomentose, densely leafy. Leaflets usually 5-15 together (per short-shoot), filiform, straight, subterete, generally 3-5 mm long, acute, dark green, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Inflorescence capitate, with 10-25 bracteate flowers; directly below these a fairly large number of closely situated, imbricate leaves without axillary flowers; these leaves flat or compressed, sericeous on the base, the lowest trifoliolate, the following 3-lobate, the lobes gradually more united upwards. Bracts supporting flowers mainly entire, oblanceolate or linear, 5.5-8 x 0.6-2 mm, densely woolly except on apical parts. Bracteoles linear, 5.5-7.5 mm long. Flowers subsessile. Calyx with densely long-sericeous calyx tube and triangular lobes 1.5-2.2 mm long, long-sericeous. Petals smaller than in A. cephalotes subsp. cephalotes, pale to rose or almost white, dark when dried, long-sericeous to woolly on apical (the keel on the lower) parts. Standard blade ovate, 6.5-7.5 x ±4.5 mm. Wing blades 6.7 x 2.5-3 mm. Keel blades 3.5-4 x ±2.5 mm. Pistil long-sericeous only around the style base. Pod 6.5-7 x 3.5-4 mm.