Aspalathus tenuissima R.Dahlgren

A procumbent, rather sparingly branched shrublet, with branches up to more than 1 m long with short, lateral, ascending branchlets with white-tomentose or short-villous pubescence. Leaflets linear, (1-)1.5-3 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm thick, subterete, straight or slightly incurved, acute-apiculate, dull green, glabrous. Flowers small, solitary, on the end of a 12-30 mm long, slender and filiform peduncle. Bract broadly subulate, 0.4-1 x 0.2-0.3 mm, acute or subobtuse. Pedicel 0.6-1.6 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Bracteoles 0.3-0.6 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, 1.7 x 2.7 mm long, with spreading puberulous pubescence; lobes lanceolate, ovoid to semicircular, 0.5-1.7 mm long, succulent, acute or obtuse, glabrous. Petals yellow to orange or red-purple on standard back, turning dark red when fading. Standard blade broadly obovate, 5-7.5 x 5-7 mm, rounded, short-sericeous on most of the back (except the base), rarely only on the apical parts. Wing blades elliptic or (ob-)ovate, 4-5.5 x 2-3.2 mm, obtuse, glabrous. Keel blades 3.5-5.7 x 2.7-3.4 mm, glabrous, with ± convex upper margin. Pistil puberulous on ovary (lower side glabrous) and upper side of style base; ovules 2. Pod obliquely lanceolate, 8.5-12 x 3.5-4.2 mm, almost black, sparsely short-sericeous.