Otholobium foliosum (Oliv.) C. H. Stirt. ssp. gazense (Baker fil.) Verdc.

foliosum: leafy

Small shrub, 1-3 m tall. Branchlets densely pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate to oblanceolate, up to 3.5 cm long, rounded to notched at the apex with a small recurved mucronate tip, densely gland-dotted on both surfaces; margin entire. Flowers in dense axillary and sub-terminal heads; standard white to pale mauve-blue with a darker purple centre or purple veining; keel purple with yellow glands at the tip. Pod up to 7 × 4 mm, papery, minutely velvety.

Common in the wetter parts of the E Highlands; one isolated record from the C Division.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, South Africa.