Aspalathus radiata Garab. ex R.Dahlgren

An erect to decumbent shrublet, low or up to 0.5 m tall, often ± branched at the base, otherwise not or sparingly branched. Young branches with white pubescence. Leaves trifoliolate, with inconspicuous leaf base; short-shoots not developed in the axils of the upper leaves at flowering stage. Leaflets (of long-shoot leaves) equally large, linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 7-14 x 1-3 mm, acute(to subobtuse), green, flexible, with sparse(to rather dense) straight half-spreading hairs, glabrescent; leaflets on short-shoot leaves smaller, green, glabrous or subglabrous. Inflorescence a terminal, pyramidal to ovate or subglobose spike 160-300 mm long, usually, with 15-30 flowers. Bract flat, lanceolate. 7-12 x 0.5-3 mm (broadest on lowest flowers), acute, weak, with half-spreading hairs. Pedicel almost lacking. Bracteoles linear, 6-12 x 0.2-0.8 mm. Calyx campanulate, long-sericeous (-lanate); lobes linear, tapering, 3-5.5 mm long, flexible, sericeous. Petals yellow (to red-brown). Standard blade elliptic, 5.5-6.5 x 4-5.5 mm, apically rounded-obtuse, densely sericeous(-tomentose) on the back. Wing blades oblong or very narrowly ovate, 5-6.5 x 1.6-3.5 mm, sericeous or tomentose on lower and apical parts, with several rows of minute folds on basal half. Keel blades lunate, 3.2-4.5 x 2-3.2 mm, with nearly straight upper margin, sericeous or tomentose on lower two-thirds. Pistil sericeous on ovary and the basal half of the style; ovules 4. Pod lanceolate, ±10-12 x 3-3.5 mm, densely hairy.