Aspalathus uniflora L.

A procumbent (rarely prostrate) or decumbent to ascending shrublet or low shrub, from less than 0.1 to ±0.5 m tall, rather sparingly or occasionally densely branched. Young branches densely villous and ± densely leafy. Leaflets linear, 3-7(-12) mm long and 0.3-0.7 mm broad (thick), subterete, acute to acuminate, often slightly incurved, non-rigid, from green and glabrous or subglabrous (subsp. laricifolia) to densely silvery pubescent (subsp. canescens). Inflorescences unifloral on lateral short-shoots, along up to 0.15 m distances of the branch ends. Flowers medium-sized. Bract linear to subfiliform, (1-)1.5-3.2 x 0.15-0.3 mm, weak, sparsely or very densely pubescent. Pedicel 0.5-1.5 mm long, densely pubescent. Bracteoles (0.2-)0.5-2 (-3) x 0.1-0.2 mm. Calyx densely villous or (subsp. canescens) sericeous-velutinous; lobes narrowly triangular, 1.2-2.6(-3) mm long, pubescent(-subglabrous), weak, acuminate or with short apical mucro. Petals light or bright yellow. Standard blades (6.7-)8-11.5(12.5) x (7-)8-12(-13) mm, obtuse to retuse, densely sericeous or tomentose on the back, glabrous on the front. Wing blades (5-)6-9.5(-10.5) x (1.6-)2-3.5(-4) mm, glabrous. Keel blades lunate, (5.5-)6.3-8.5 X 3-4.8 mm, glabrous, with straight or slightly concave (or convex) upper margin, slightly rostrate in some of the eastern silvery hairy forms. Pistil with long, dense pubescence on the ovary; ovules 2. Pod broadly lanceolate, (7-)9.5-14(-17) x (3-)4.5-6.3 mm, very densely woolly.