Aspalathus cinerascens E.Mey.

An erect, branched shrub usually 1-2 m tall. Young branches rather slender, grey-or white-velutinous. Leaflets linear, 6-20(-30) mm long, soft, flexible, short-sericeous, silvery grey. Inflorescences 1-3-fIowered on lateral short-shoots, often dispersed in high numbers along the branches. Bract situated on the pedicel 1-1.5 mm from its base, 1-2 mm long, linear, white-sericeous. Pedicel (1-)2-3 mm long, densely white-pubescent. Bracteoles 0.5-1.3 mm long. Calyx tube short, densely sericeous; lobes linear or narrowly triangular, 0.8-1.5 mm long, obtuse, short-sericeous. Petals light to pale yellow. Standard blade 4.5-5.2(-5.5) x (3.6-)4-5 mm, obtuse, sericeous to short-tomentose on upper two-thirds to three-quarters of the back, glabrous on the front. Wing blades narrowly triangular-oblong, (3.5-)4-4.7 x 1.5-1.7 mm, broadest near the base, tapering, glabrous, with 1-2 rows of lamella folds on basal upper half. Keel blades 3.6-4.2(-4.6) x 1.8-2.3(-2.8) mm, glabrous, with ± straight or slightly concave upper margin. Pistil sericeous on upper half of ovary and style base; ovules 2. Pod lanceolate, 10-11.5 x 3.8-4.3 mm, sericeous(-tomentose) on most parts.