Aspalathus triquetra Thunb.

An erect or ascending shrub or shrublet, usually 0.25-1.5 m tall, rather much branched. Young branches tomentose, often densely leafy. Leaflets linear, subulate, usually 1.5-5 mm long, less than 1 mm broad, angular or somewhat flattened, with ± distinct midvein, obtuse or pointed, straight or slightly incurved, glabrous or those on distal parts of branches ± densely ciliate on the margins. Flowers 2-6 together on branch ends. Bract leaflets 2.5-6.5(-9) x 0.6-1.5(-2.3) mm, ciliate on margins. Pedicel 1 mm or less. Bracteole leaflets similar to bracts but narrower. Calyx sericeous or almost villous; upper lobes 1.5-3 mm long and 3-5 mm broad; lowest lobe 2-4 mm long and ±1 mm broad. Petals yellow. Standard blade 9-13.5(-15) x 10-14(-16) mm, pubescent on apical parts, glabrous on basal, and sometimes on central parts. Wing petals 7-12 x 3-6 mm. Keel petals 8-11 x 4.2-5.5 mm, lunate or slightly beak-like. Pistil with tomentose-sericeous ovary; ovules 3-9. Pod 8-11 x 4.5-7 mm, ± woolly-villous.