Species Aspalathus spinosissima
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There aren’t any identifications of Aspalathus spinosissima.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Aspalathus:
From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Etymology of spinosissima:
From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’ and issima = 'an intensifier', 'very'; i.e. very thorny
Scientific name:
Aspalathus spinosissima R. Dahlgren
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Erect or sprawling shrub, 0.3--1 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets subterete-angular, pungent. Flowers 1--3 on slender axillary peduncles, pale or bright yellow, sometimes reddish on standard back, keel silky, calyx glabrous, lobes pungent. Oct.--Feb. Mountain fynbos, 500--2000 m, NW, SW (Cedarberg to Stellenbosch Mts).
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Aspalathus spinosissima.