Aspalathus lanceicarpa R.Dahlgren

A procumbent or decumbent shrublet with branches up to ±0.6 m long or more, reddish brown, diffusely branched, with slender branchlets partly appressed-puberulous, partly glabrous. Flowers solitary on slender lateral branches with a peduncle-like 4-12 mm long internode between a 'leaf fascicle' and the uppermost vegetative leaf which is situated close to the flower (cf. the different condition in A. tenuissima). Bract linear-subulate, 0.4-0.8 mm long. Pedicel ±1 mm long, appressed-puberulous. Bracteoles subulate, 0.3-0.7 mm long. Calyx infundibular-campanulate, with the tube appressed-puberulous; lobes broadly subulate, ±1.2 mm long, subterete, green, glabrous, acute. Petals yellow to ferruginous or partly red. Standard blade broadly obovate or circular, ±4.5-4.8 x 4.7-5 mm, glabrous (some pubescence present at base of front; apex swollen, greenish, acute. Wing blades elongate, 4.2-4.5 x ±1.5 mm, glabrous. Keel blades 4.6-5 x ±2.2 mm, glabrous, with nearly straight upper margin. Pistil puberulous on upper parts and on style base, otherwise glabrous; ovules 2. Pod fusiform-lanceolate, more than 15 x 3.7 mm, very sparsely appressed-puberulous, smooth (quite ripe pods not seen).