Aspalathus wurmbeana E.Mey.

Ascending or erect (rarely decumbent) shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall, branches often standing in one or several horizontal planes. Young branches often reddish or brown, puberulous or short-villous. Leaflets linear, (1.5-)2.5-7(-9) mm long, ±0.4 mm thick, subterete, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, dull or dark green, obtuse or acute. Pedicel 0.5-1.2 mm long, short-hairy. Bract accreted to pedicel base for less than 0.5 mm, triangular-subulate, 0.2-1 mm long, green. Bracteoles 0.1-0.8 mm long. Calyx tube appressed-puberulous, often reddish; lobes broadly subulate or lanceolate, (1.1-)1.6-2.8 mm long. Petals yellow or partly to prevailingly dark purple. Standard blade broadly ovate-elliptic, 4.5-6 x 3.6-5.2 mm, acute-acuminate, with sparse, short, appressed hairs only along midrib and on apex of back. Wing blades linear-oblong, 4-5.7 x (1.1-)1.3-1.9 mm, generally with part of upper margin incurved (as in Aspalathus spinosa); claw ±1 mm long or less. Keel blades 4.2-5.2 x 2.3-2.8 mm; claws only 0.7-1.3 mm long. Pistil glabrous or with some pubescence on basal upper part of ovary. Pod 5.3-5.6 x 2.7-3.2 mm, dark greyish.