Aspalathus karrooensis R.Dahlgren

An erect or ascending shrublet 0.5-0.8 m tall, fairly closely branched. Young branches densely white-woolly. Leaflets linear, 6-12 x 0.7 mm, slightly flattened, densely white-tomentose or short-woolly, but apices dark, glabrous, acute. Inflorescence terminal on short branchlets, unifloral (or bifloral), the flower(s) partly surrounded by the upper leaves. Bract subfiliform, 2-3 mm long, weak, often pigmented, clothed with long white hairs. Pedicel very short (almost obsolete). Bracteoles tooth-like, minute, ±0.3 mm long, hairy. Calyx entirely and densely white-woolly; lobes linear, weak, 4-6 mm long, acuminate, long-hairy. Petals pale yellow or purplish when fading but lower part of keel always purple. Standard blade broadly obovate, 8-8.5 x 8.5-9 mm, emarginate; back woolly on distal two-thirds, glabrous on basal third. Wing blades ±5.5 x 2.6 mm. Keel blades 5.5-6 x 3.5 mm with slightly S-shaped upper margin. Pistil closely long-woolly on upper parts of ovary and on style base. Pods not known.