Aspalathus linearifolia (Burm.F.) Dc.

An erect shrub 0.9-2 m tall, much branched and sometimes with wide circumference. Young branches covered with white villous-tomentose pubescence. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets (of long-shoot leaves) linear or linear-oblanceolate, 15-40 x 2-5 mm, weak and soft, acute-acuminate, short and white-sericeous when young, becoming ± glabrous and green. Inflorescence a terminal group or head (not a raceme) with 3-10 flowers radiating from almost one point. Bract lanceolate, (4-)8-15 x 1-3 mm(those of peripheral flowers largest), weak, acuminate, ± white-sericeous. Pedicel 1-2 mm long, white-sericeous. Bracteoles lanceolate, 4-10 x 0.5-1.5 mm. Calyx covered with dense, white silky sericeous pubescence longer than in A. rugosa; lobes linear, 5.5-10 x 1.5-2 mm, acuminate, weak and soft. Petals light yellow. Standard blade orbicular, 9.5-12 x 9.5-13 mm, sericeous on most of the back (glabrous on basal marginal parts). Wing blades oblong, 8-11 x 2.5-4.5 mm, sericeous on lower parts, basally with ±4 rows of minute folds. Keel blade lunate, 7.5-9.5 x 3.2-4.8 mm, with ± straight upper margin, sericeous on the lower half. Pistil sericeous on the ovary and basal half of style; ovules 4. Pod narrowly and obliquely ovate, ±12 x 4.5 mm, densely sericeous.