Aspalathus pachyloba Benth.

An erect, sparingly to rather much branched shrub 0.4-1.3(-2) m tall. Young branches short-villous to long-woolly. Leaflets linear, often sausage-shaped, 1.5-6 mm long, 0.5-0.8(-1) mm thick, subterete, obtuse, acute or rarely mucronate. Flowers distributed along the branches (often up to 20 on each branch end) below the leafy branch tips. Bract and bracteoles subulate, 0.7-3 mm long, acute-acuminate, glabrous abaxially. Pedicel 0.5 mm or less, tomentose. Calyx tube (2.5-)3-5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely tomentose, lobes deltoid or narrowly triangular to subulate, (1-)1.5-3.5 mm long, glabrous, acute-acuminate, rarely spine-tipped. Petals bright yellow, turning black when dried. Standard blade broadly obovate-circular, (5.5-)6-13 x (6-)6.5-13(-14.5) mm, apically refuse, tomentose on each side of midrib of back and laterally on the base. Wing blades narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, (5-)6-12 x (2.2-)3-6.5(-7) mm, glabrous, basally with 4-6 rows of minute folds. Keel blades (5-)5.5-8.2 x 3-4.5 mm. Pistil glabrous or tomentose on upper side of the ovary; ovules 2. Pod rhombic-ovate, (8-)8.5-12 x (3.5-)4.5-6 mm, folded or rugose, turning dark.