ASPALATHUS abietinaE. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Comm. p. 48. Benth. l. c. p. 637.
Information
branches tomentulose; leaves tufted, subulate, aristato-pungent, glabrous; flowers 2–4 together, or solitary, sessile; calyx fleshy, glabrous, its lobes ovato-subulate, pungent-acuminate, equalling or exceeding the wide tube; petals glabrous, subequal, the carina arched, obtuse; ovary 6-ovuled; bracts ovate, keeled, pungent. A rigid, much branched, robust bush, well covered with twigs and leaves. Leaves very patent, unequal in the same tuft, 3–4–5 lines long. Flowers either solitary in lateral tufts, or more frequently subcapitate at the ends of the branches.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grootzwarteberg and the Krom Riv., Drege. Zwarteberg (but probably from higher, drier, and more rocky ground) Ecklon and Zeyher. (Herb. Bth., Sd.)