Tephrosia limpopoensis J.B.Gillett

Perennial low shrub up to 1 m high, the older parts woody and defoliate. Young stems densely appressed-pubescent with grey hairs, older stems with rugose bark. Leaves with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral leaflets; petiole up to 1 cm long, petiole and rachis together up to 2 cm long; leaflets up to 2.6 x 0.6 cm, oblanceolate, rounded and ± recurved beneath at the apex; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely appressed-pubescent; stipules 4-5 x c.0.5 mm, linear. Flowers in short few-flowered terminal racemes and in the axils of upper leaves; bracts c.2 mm long; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Calyx c.5 mm long, grey-pubescent; lateral teeth about equalling the tube, the two upper teeth joined for ± half their length. Petals 7-10 mm long. Upper stamen almost free. Ovary pubescent; style glabrous. Pods c.33 cm long, rather sparsely appressed-pubescent. Seeds 7-8.