Compilation
Aspalathus ericoides

diffusely much-branched; leaves tufted, short, linear, blunt, villous or glabrescent, the floral ones scarcely longer than the calyx tube; flowers lateral, in interrupted spikes toward the ends of the branches; calyx villous, its segments linear-subulate, bluntish, twice as long as the tube; the ovate-oblong vexillum and the keel villous; ovary 2-ovuled; legume obliquely ovate, acute, villous, equalling the calyx. Diffuse or prostrate, robust, 3–4 feet long, much and divaricately branched. Pubescence generally copious and soft, rusty or fulvous, sometimes scanty. Leaves 1–1 1/2 line long, sometimes drying black. Flowers extending from 1–2–3 inches along the branches, small and pale, 3 lines long.