Aspalathus macrantha Harv.

An erect, much branched shrub or a small tree, 2-4 m tall or more. Young branches slender, tomentose-sericeous. Leaflets linear-filiform, slender, subterete, 7-16 mm long, acute, with sparse, spreading short hairs. Leaf bases of long-shoot leaves developed as a blunt spur less than 1 mm long. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3, situated close together on branch tips; large. Bract and bracteoles filiform-subulate, ±5-6 mm long. Pedicel 2-3 mm long, white-sericeous. Calyx tube sericeous, lobes triangular with subulate tip, 3-4 mm long, green and subglabrous on apical parts. Petals bright yellow or with reddish shades. Standard ovate, 17-18 x 15-16 mm, pointed, short-sericeous on the back, the inner margins basally thickened and densely pubescent. Wing blades elliptic, 12-13 x ±7 mm, glabrous. Keel blades ±17 mm long and 6.5-7 mm broad at broadest part, nearly pointed. Pistil: ovary sericeous; ovules 4-6; style slender, glabrous; stigma slightly forwardly directed. Pod lanceolate, ±20 x 5.5 mm, slightly upcurved near apex, black.