Chamaecrista capensis (Thunb.) E.Mey.

Perennial herb with several prostrate, semi-erect, or erect, simple or sub-simple stems from a woody rootstock, or with one or few erect stems up to 90 cm high, usually branched in the upper half. Stems ± ridged, glabrate, sericeous, villous or velutinous with only straight appressed or curved appressed hairs, or with few or many short or long, or short and long, patent hairs intermixed with the appressed type; short hairs mostly greyish-white, long hairs greyish-white, silvery, fulvous or yellow. Leaves linear or oblong-linear, tapering slightly distally, 17-52(-65) mm long, 7-18(-25) mm wide; stipules straight or slightly curved, lanceolate, prominently nerved, the nerves sometimes rendered invisible by dense hairs, base oblique, apex acute or acuminate, surface sub-glabrous to villous: petiolar gland sub-sessile or raised on an indistinct, or occasionally a distinct (up to 1.5 mm long) stalk, circular to ± elliptic, concave, 0.2-0.5(-0.7) mm long, 0.1-0.3 mm wide (usually 0.2 mm in diameter); rhachis channelled to faintly channelled adaxially, margins of the channel villous, sometimes adhering and obscuring canal between until revealed artificially, sparsely to densely villous abaxially; leaflets in (3-)10-24(-34) pairs, obliquely linear to oblong-linear, sometimes subfalcate to falcate, 4-14 mm long, 1.2-2.8(-4) mm wide, base oblique, apex asymmetric, usually apiculate, occasionally mucronate, surfaces glabrous or glabrescent, margin with scattered long, spreading hairs, midrib strongly excentric (towards anticous margin) lateral nerves several towards both margins, prominent beneath. Inflorescences axillary to slightly supra-axillary, 2-3-5-flowered, bracts resembling stipules; pedicels, at flowering (12-)18-40 mm long, at fruiting to 60 mm long, villous with short curved appressed and long straight patent hairs intermixed. Petals obovate, 9-17 mm long, usually exceeding sepals, bright yellow. Stamens 10. Ovaries densely strigose, hairs nearly straight, or curved, greyish-white. Pods 30-50 mm long, 3-6 mm wide, valves glabrescent with short curved appressed hairs, or sparsely to densely villous. Seeds rhombic, ±3 mm long, ±2.5 mm wide, testa brown, with darker brown dots arranged in lines.