Aspalathus granulata R.Dahlgren

An erect or ascending, branched shrublet, 0.2-0.5(-1?) m tall. Young branches densely white-villous, becoming glabrous. Leaflets ovoid-oblong, 1-2(-3.3) mm long and 0.5-0.8 mm thick, terete, bright green, acute or mucronulate. Flowers distributed along the branches for some distance below the leafy tips. Bract at pedicel base, 1-1.6 x ±0.3 mm, linear, weak, adaxially puberulous. Pedicel 1-1.8(-2.2) mm long, short-villous. Bracteoles 1-1.8 mm long. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pale purplish, sparsely woolly; lobes narrowly triangular, 0.9-2.2 mm long, acute-acuminate, pale. Petals light or clear yellow, when dry then pale yellow. Standard blade 5-8 x 5.5-8.5 mm, tomentose on most parts of the back except the basal parts. Wing blades narrowly rectangular-elliptic, 3.8-6.6 x 1.8-2.5 mm. Keel 4.1-6.4 x 1.6-3.0 mm. Pistil glabrous; ovules 2-5. Pod broadly lanceolate, 7.8-8.3 x 2.6-3 mm, subterete, smooth, hard, dark grey and black.