Aspalathus rycroftii R.Dahlgren

A low shrublet with decumbent, stiff, rigid, up to 0.6 m long branches. Young branches with sparse, short, appressed pubescence. Long-shoot leaves subtended by a woody base extended into a more than 2 mm long, glabrous, recurved, woody spur or spine. Leaflets linear-subulate, 1-3 mm long and ±0.5 mm thick, subterete, acute, glabrous. Flowers solitary at the ends of short lateral branches. Bract and bracteoles oblong or linear-subulate, 1-2.5 mm long, partly puberulous. Pedicel 1.5-2.5 mm long, short-sericeous. Calyx infundibular-campanulate, sparsely short-sericeous; lobes narrowly triangular, 2.3-3.5 mm long, acute, with green, thickened margins. Petals yellow or partly purple-shaded. Standard blade elliptic, 11-12.3 x 8-9.5 mm, with acute, slightly incurved apex, sericeous on the back. Wing blades oblong-elliptic, 7-8.7 x 3-4.2 mm, glabrous. Keel blades somewhat rostrate, 9.2-10.2 x 3.2-4 mm. Pistil: ovary sericeous on most parts; ovules 6-8; style glabrous, slender; stigma elongate, forwardly directed. Pod broadly lanceolate, 11-13 x 4-5 mm, rather terete, brown when ripe.