Aspalathus asparagoides subsp. asparagoides leaves

The narrowly linear to needle-like leaves of Aspalathus asparagoides subsp. asparagoides are tufted upon the stems. Leaf curvature is inconsistent on the plant in picture, no general incurving present. There are soft hairs spaced on leaves below their tips, becoming dense in white woolly clouds around the bases of particularly the young, stem-tip leaf tufts.

New buds can be seen at the stem-tip in picture, emerging from the wool and angling out (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; JSTOR).