Aspalathus psoraleoides (C.Presl) Benth.

A low, erect or ascending shrublet, (0.05-)0.1-0.2 m tall, densely branched. Young branches densely white-puberulous. Leaves: the upper short-shoot leaves with axillary short-shoots not yet developed. Leaflets flat, ovate, or narrowly obovate, (3-)5-12 x 2-4 mm, thick, carnose, apiculate-mucronulate (not pungent), midvein margins and a few lateral veins ± distinct, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent. Inflorescence a terminal head-like umbel of 6-12 flowers. Bract accreted to the 1.5 mm long, densely hairy pedicel at the base and emerging at calyx base, circular or ovate, ±2 x 2 mm, short-sericeous, acute, cupped around the base of the calyx. Bracteoles linear-spathulate, ±2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, short-sericeous. Calyx campanulate, densely short-sericeous on the back. Wing blades very narrowly elliptic, ±7.5 x 2.5 mm, sericeous on lower half, almost without minute basal folds. Keel blades ±6 x 2.5 mm, slightly upcurved, short-sericeous at least on lower half. Pistil pubescent on upper parts of ovary and upper side of basal half of style; ovules 2. Pods not seen.