Aspalathus pedunculata leaves
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Louis Jordaan
The (mostly) trifoliolate, sessile leaves of Aspalathus pedunculata are sometimes tufted, sometimes only single leaflets. The small leaflets are narrowly linear and about cylindrical to thickish and flat. The leaflet tips are bluntly pointed, the bases taper. The leaf bodies are often not straight, the greyish surfaces densely velvety.
The foliage is mostly dense at stem-tips, slightly spaced lower down showing bare internodes (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; JSTOR; iNaturalist).