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—Morphologically similar to 
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. Both taxa belong to 
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Group 1: Sericeae, sharing features of general habit being erect, single-stemmed shrubs up to 
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with terminal spicate inflorescences, hairy petals; bi-ovulate ovaries, 1-seeded and obliquely ovate fruits. 
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scarcely so); leaves borne in tightly packed fascicles of up to 9 leaflets, obovate to ovate, silvery sericeous or almost woolly densely pubescent on seasonal shoots (
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flowers bright yellow and 
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a tall compact shrub to 
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tall, single-stemmed but branching from near base, reseeder. Older stems with greybrown, rough and longitudinally fissured bark. Mature branchlets characterised by prominent persistent swollen hairy leaf bases. Seasonal shoots silvery, densely woolly. 
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, flat, obovate-ovate, apex acute to obtuse, weak, spreading; leaf bases long sericeous to woolly, persistent, becoming raised and woody with age. 
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a dense, imbricate terminal spike borne on seasonal branches whereas short side shoots are usually subtended by single leaf. 
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long, spathulate, apex attenuate, densely sericeous; bracteoles 3.5–4.0 × 0.5–1.0 mm, narrowly lanceolate. 
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3.5–4.0 mm long, campanulate, sericeous externally, silvery green; tube 2.0– 
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long; lobes narrowly triangular, tips acute, dorsal and lateral lobes 
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long. 
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4.5–5.0 × 3.0– 
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, pale yellow with golden nectar guide that turns dark brown after anthesis, exceeding leaves, sides curved backwards, ovate, apex rounded to emarginate, back of standard entirely densely sericeous, midrib on reverse not visible; claw 1.5–2.0 mm long, linear. 
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4.0– 
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long, blades 2.7–2.9 × 
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, elliptical-rectangular, not flared away from keel, apex obtuse, base truncate, slightly longer than keel, concave above midline, clasping keel, hairy on lower half of blade; petal sculpturing lamellate, 15–20 rows along basal to mid dorsal portion of blade; claw 1.7–2.0 mm long. 
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long, well-exposed and almost woolly, blades 2.5–2.6 × 
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, obovate, fused, long sericeous, apex rounded, base auriculate, pocketed basally, claw 
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long. 
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long, filaments fused into a staminal tube, slit dorsally, free at tips, erect; anthers 10, 6 shorter basifixed, 
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long, and 4 longer dorsifixed (arranged: LSLSSSLSLS), 
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long; versatile. 
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long, subsessile; ovary 
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long, 
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high, lanceolate, sericeous, ovules 2; style straight to upcurved, robust, sericeous only along lower third; stigma regular, capitate. 
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obliquely-ovate, 3.4 × 
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long, colour pale green when young, mature fruits not seen, sericeous. 
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not seen.
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF3FFB76AB81CEE4" bold="true" box="[136,254,1167,1189]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FEB3FB76AA8DCEE5" box="[260,498,1167,1189]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus praetermissa</emphasis>
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. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FE49FB76A969CEE4" bold="true" box="[510,534,1167,1188]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">A.</emphasis>
Flower front view. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FD63FB76A995CEE4" bold="true" box="[724,746,1167,1188]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">B.</emphasis>
Flower side view. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FC17FB76A8C7CEE5" bold="true" box="[928,952,1167,1189]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">C.</emphasis>
Flower basal view. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FBCEFB76AFEFCEE4" bold="true" box="[1145,1168,1167,1188]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">D.</emphasis>
Wing petals, upper one outer surface, lower one inner surface. 
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Keel petals, upper one outer surface, lower one inner surface. 
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Androecium. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FB75FB4AAFA4CE89" bold="true" box="[1218,1243,1203,1225]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">G.</emphasis>
Pistil. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FAABFB4AAE4ACE88" bold="true" box="[1308,1333,1203,1224]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">H.</emphasis>
Unripe pod. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF3FFB2EABE8CEAC" bold="true" box="[136,151,1239,1260]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">I.</emphasis>
Leaf fascicles. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FE99FB2EAA3FCEAC" bold="true" box="[302,320,1239,1260]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">J.</emphasis>
Inflorescences on seasonal shoots. 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FD22FB2EA9D1CEAC" bold="true" box="[661,686,1239,1260]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">K.</emphasis>
Habit of old plant and habitat. Scale bars: 2 mm. Photos by Brian du Preez.
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<subSubSection id="C35997D20E2BFFB9FF0AFAE2AFD1CD11" pageId="2" pageNumber="71" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF0AFAE2AA1BCF75" bold="true" box="[189,356,1307,1333]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Etymology:—</emphasis>
The specific epithet 
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FD88FAE5A9AECF75" box="[575,721,1308,1333]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">praetermissa</emphasis>
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is derived from the Latin word 
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meaning overlooked and alludes to how this distinctive species was only discovered fairly recently on private farmland during ecological surveys.
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF0AFA7EAA20CFE1" bold="true" box="[189,351,1415,1441]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Phenology:—</emphasis>
Flowering has been recorded over an extended period, from February to May and from August to February, and plants are most likely to be in flower from September to May.
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF0AFA36AA9CCFA9" bold="true" box="[189,483,1487,1513]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Diagnostic characters:—</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FE54FA36A988CFA9" box="[483,759,1487,1513]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus praetermissa</emphasis>
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is a distinctive species of 
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Group 1: Sericeae. Species in this group are characterised as shrubs or shrublets of variable size bearing flat weak leaves clothed in sericeous to puberulous pubescence, rarely glabrous or glabrescent. The mostly yellow flowers are borne singularly or in few to many-flowered racemose to spicate and capitate inflorescences, nectar guides in older flowers mostly turning orange. Bracts and bracteoles are always present, well-developed, simple, and flat. Pedicels are short to obsolete. All petals are hairy to some extent (
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). 
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FD06F97AA8B8CCDD" box="[689,967,1667,1693]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus praetermissa</emphasis>
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is most similar to 
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FB2DF97AAED3CCDD" box="[1178,1452,1667,1693]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus quinquefolia</emphasis>
subsp. 
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</taxonomicName>
, and although these taxa occur sympatrically, the latter has a much wider distribution. 
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FA98F95EAA65CCA5" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus praetermissa</emphasis>
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differs in having short shoots bearing silvery almost woolly densely-packed flat leaves (
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FB5EF935AE7FCCA5" box="[1257,1280,1740,1765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">vs</emphasis>
leaves singular on short shoots, pubescent to glabrescent). Flowers of the new species are 5.5–6.0 mm long and pale yellow (
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FAE2F909AE13CD49" box="[1365,1388,1776,1801]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">vs</emphasis>
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long and bright yellow). The wing petals are pubescent on the entire ventral half and not flared towards the apex (
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF26F8C1ABD7CD11" box="[145,168,1848,1873]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">vs</emphasis>
pubescent only basally on ventral half to completely glabrous and flared towards the apex).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C35997D20E2BFFB8FF0AF8A2A879CDB5" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="72" pageId="2" pageNumber="71" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FF0AF8A2A97ACD35" bold="true" box="[189,517,1883,1909]" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Distribution and habitat:—</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FDB2F8A2A864CD35" box="[517,795,1883,1909]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Aspalathus praetermissa</emphasis>
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is a restricted local endemic occurring on the coastal plain east of Elandsbaai in the 
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of 
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(
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).
</paragraph>
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The known distribution lies between Elandsbaai in the west, Paleisheuwel in the east, Leipoldtville in the north, and Redelinghuys in the south, an area of about 
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. It was collected for the first time in 2009 by Nick Helme, photographed by Benjamin Walton in 2017, and collected and photographed again at various localities in 2018 by Nick Helme. It grows in deep, acid, low nutrient sands, entirely within the vegetation 
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described by 
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Rebelo 
<emphasis id="B937184B0E2BFFB9FAC4F7E9AEDAC269" box="[1395,1445,2063,2089]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="71">et al</emphasis>
. (2006)
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as Leipoldtville Sand Fynbos (FFd2). It occurs at an elevation of 
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above sea level, and does not occur on steep or rocky slopes. This species is a fire weed (flowering best after fire, and being significantly more abundant in younger veld), and unusually for an 
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is quite persistent (in low numbers) in veld not burnt for up to 30 years.
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2AFFB8FF3FFC5CAB81C9FA" bold="true" box="[136,254,933,955]" pageId="3" pageNumber="72">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Known distribution of 
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faces a noticeably clear threat to its survival from rapid conversion of the natural veld into cropland. The scale of the threat is easily visible from satellite photography taken in 2019 (
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). About 70% of the suitable habitat within its known range has been lost to potato and rooibos tea cultivation, mostly within the last 30 years, and the loss is ongoing.
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The new species does not occur within any nationally protected areas but does occur in a few existing and proposed Contract Nature Reserves, which are privately owned. The population is already heavily fragmented by cultivation, and population size is difficult to estimate, partly because it is significantly less common in veld that has not burned for more than 15 years. As high value crops fragment the landscape, landowners are reluctant to burn the veld and this could result in a failure to recruit in these areas, and some individuals dying from senescence. Based on available data, an Extent of Occurrence (EOO) of 
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are inferred for this species. These values meet the criteria necessary to be listed as a threatened species based on the IUCN Criteria and Categories (
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). This area is fairly poorly explored by botanists, and more sub-populations may exist in small vegetation fragments, but it is likely that most of the historical distribution range of the species has been lost to crop cultivation. Due to a lack of historical data for this species, population size reduction under criterion A cannot be accurately inferred, but it is likely to be in the range of 70–80 percent. Based on the severely fragmented nature of the area between known sub-populations, lack of fire preventing seedling recruitment, and ongoing habitat loss, we determine that it be Red listed as Critically Endangered (CR: B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v)).
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; 
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elev, 
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N. 
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; 
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E Elandsbaai
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, first posted on iSpot by 
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, 
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N. 
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(
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.
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<emphasis id="B937184B0E2AFFB8FF0AF8F8A9F8CD5B" bold="true" box="[189,647,1793,1820]" pageId="3" pageNumber="72">iNaturalist and iSpot observations:—</emphasis>
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. 
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: NW of Verlorenvlei, 
<date id="FFFDE2990E2AFFB8FAB9F8FBABBCCD00" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" value="2018-11-21">21 November 2018</date>
, Riaan van der Walt, observation only, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10008666; Vensterklip farm, 
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, Petra Broddle, observation only, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18774026; Vensterklip farm, 
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, Gigi Laidler, observation only, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18557636, Farm Bonteheuwel No. 
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elev, 
<date id="FFFDE2990E2AFFB8FE48F86BA9C1CDEC" box="[511,702,1938,1964]" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" value="2017-02-07">7 February 2017</date>
, Benjamin Walton, observation only, 
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sp.
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| Observation | Southern Africa | iSpot (ispotnature.org); Kruisfontein, Redelinghuys, 
<date id="FFFDE2990E2AFFB8FC04F84FAFFBCD90" box="[947,1156,1974,2000]" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" value="2009-09-09">9 September 2009</date>
, Nick Helme, observation only, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13075649.
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