Aspalathus submissa R.Dahlgren

Low shrublets, 0.1-0.35 m tall, with straight, spreading branches. Branchlets short-tomentose or puberulous. Leaflets 3-9 together on the branchlets (leaf with or without short-shoot), filiform, slender, 1.5-4 mm long, obtuse or subacute, greyish green, with sparse, short hairs or glabrous. Inflorescence of 2-4(-6) flowers, rather close together in a short spike. Bracts all trifoliolate, with leaflets subfiliform, 2-3.5 mm long. Bracteoles subfiliform, 2-3 mm long. Flowers rather small, subsessile. Calyx tube campanulate, thinly short-sericeous; lobes narrowly ovate-triangular, 1.5-2.3 mm long, pointed, green, with distinct midvein, almost glabrous. Petals almost white, but with purplish violet keel apex. Standard blade narrowly elliptic, 6-7.5 x 3.5-5 mm, short-sericeous on the back. Wing blades 4.5-6 x 1.5-2 mm, with only some minute pubescence on basal (and central) lower parts. Keel blades 3.8-4.5 x 1.7-2.1 mm, short-sericeous on apical lower half. Pistil with some pubescence only on style base. Pod 4.5-5 x 2-2.5 mm.