Aspalathus joubertiana Eckl. & Zeyh.

An ascending shrublet 0.4-0.7 m tall, branched at the base, with sparingly branched or simple, long, tail-like branches, which are densely leafy and clothed with white-woolly pubescence. Leaves densely situated. Leaflets linear, 6-11 mm long, slightly incurved (but not S-curved), not very rigid or pungent, but apically mucronate or acuminate, silky sericeous or (leaves of short-shoots on basal parts) subglabrous. Inflorescences unifloral, distributed on long stretches of the branches. Bract tooth-like or subulate, 0.7-1.0 mm, ciliate. Pedicel 2-3 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles ±0.2 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, tomentose; lobes subulate-linear, 3.2-4.2 mm long, not stiff or spine-tipped, purplish, ± pubescent. Petals bright yellow. Standard blade 9.5-11 x 9.2-11.2 mm, tomentose only on marginal-apical parts of the back, otherwise glabrous. Wing blades 8.2-10 x 3.6-4 mm, glabrous. Keel rostrate, tapering into a straight beak, 7.5-8.7 x 3.5-4 mm, without or with shallow puckering at base. Pistil tomentose on ovary and upper side of style base; ovules 2. Pods not seen.