Aspalathus sericea P.J.Bergius

An erect, straight, rather slender, little or unbranched shrublet up to 0.8(-1) m tall. Stem rod-like, clothed on the young parts with sericeous-tomentose pubescence. Leaves of young long-shoots with one large leaflet and no or only rudimentary lateral leaflets; axillary short-shoots developed in the leaf axils(but still small during flowering); the (middle) leaflets lanceolate, 6-14 x 2-5 mm, acute-acuminate, silvery sericeous on both sides(not glabrescent as in A. aemula). Inflorescence a pyramidal to elongate spike with 20-30(-35) flowers. Bract lanceolate, 6-11 x 0.7-3 mm, soft, sericeous. Pedicel ±1 mm long or less, sericeous. Bracteoles subfiliform, 6-11 mm long, sericeous. Calyx tubular, sericeous; lobes narrowly triangular, 2.5-4.5 mm long, pointed. Petals light yellow, with sericeous pubescence. Standard blade ovate, 9-10.5 x 6-7 mm, obtuse-acute, sericeous on the back. Wing blade very narrowly obovate-oblong, 9-9.5 x 3.7-4.5 mm, sericeous on most parts, but glabrous on upper basal parts; these with several rows of minute folds. Keel blade lunate, 6.5-8 x 3.5-4 mm, with nearly straight upper margin, sericeous on the lower two-thirds. Pistil sericeous on ovary and basal third of style; ovules 4. Pods lanceolate, 6-8 x 2.0-2.5 mm, smooth, sericeous.