Aspalathus intermedia Eckl. & Zeyh.

An ascending, sparingly or moderately branched shrublet, probably 0.35-0.6 m tall, villous on the young branches. Leaflets linear, 1.2-3(-5) mm long, (0.3-)0.4-0.5 mm thick, subterete, acute to subobtuse, straight or slightly incurved, non-rigid, sombre green, with sparse, ± spreading short hairs. Flowers solitary or in pairs on each brachyblast; distributed along 20 to more than 60 mm long distances of the branches below leafy branch tips. Bract subfiliform or narrowly linear, 0.7-1.6 x 0.1-0.25 mm long. Pedicel 0.6 x 1.2 mm long, pubescent. Bracteoles 0.1-0.6 x ±0.1 mm. Calyx tube with very short, villous or tomentose pubescence; lobes subulate, 0.7-2.3 mm long. Petals yellow. Standard blade broadly obovate or circular, 5.6-6.7 x 5.9-7.2 mm, retuse or emarginate at apex, densely sericeous (to tomentose) on the back, glabrous (or rarely with few marginal hairs) on the front. Wing blades 4.2-5.2 x 1.4-1.8 mm, with some pubescence along lower margin; with ±6 rows of lunulate folds covering more than half of the outside. Keel blades 4.1-5 x 2.1-2.5 mm, with nearly straight upper margin, pubescent on most parts. Pod 7.8 x ±3.2 mm, densely woolly on most parts.