Aspalathus salicifolia R.Dahlgren

An erect or ascending, branched shrub or shrublet 0.4-1 m tall. Young branches densely white-woolly. Leaves trifoliolate; axillary short-shoots soon developed in their axils. Leaflets oblanceolate (4-)8.5 x (2-)3-5 mm soft, flexible, acute(-acuminate), grey-sericeous or partly tomentose(pubescence shorter than in A. dunsdoniana). Inflorescence a head of 4-15(-20) flowers, partly surrounded by the uppermost leaves. Bract linear, 6-7 x 0.5-1.5 mm, weak, sericeous. Pedicel very short. Bracteoles similar to the bract, 5-6 x < 0.5 mm. Calyx tubular, with tube ±5 mm long, tomentose to sericeous; lobes narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm long, weak, sericeous. Petals light yellow. Standard blade circular, 5.5-7 x 6.5-7.5 mm, obtuse, sericeous on the back. Wing blades narrowly triangular-ovate, 5.5-7 x 3-3.5 mm, sericeous on most parts, with some rows of minute folds on basal third. Keel blades lunate, 4-4.5 x 2.5-3 mm, with almost straight upper margin, sericeous on lower half. Pistil sericeous on ovary and basal parts of style; ovules 3-5. Pods not seen.