Aspalathus glabrescens R.Dahlgren

An erect, branched shrub 0.8-1.8 m tall, with ascending, rather sparsely ramified branches, short-sericeous on the young parts. Leaflets piniform, (6-)8-16 mm long, 0.4 mm thick, subterete, straight or slightly curved rather rigid and apically acuminate, pale green, sparsely sericeous to glabrous, often glabrous at least on apical parts. Inflorescences uni-or bifloral, on lateral short-shoots, distributed along the branches. Bract subulate, 1.8-2.2 mm long, weak, ± hairy. Pedicel shorter than 1 mm, sericeous. Bracteoles subulate, 0.5-1.7 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, white-tomentose(-sericeous); lobes triangular-subulate, 2.2-2.8 mm long, tomentose or sericeous. Petals pale yellow. Standard blade circular, 7.5-9 x 8-8.5 mm, obtuse-retuse, short-tomentose to sericeous on most of the back, glabrous on the front, without distinct basal ears. Wing blades 5.7-6.5 x 2-2.2 mm, glabrous, with few rows of minute folds on the basal half. Keel blades lunate, 4.5-5 x 2.5-3 mm, obtuse, glabrous, with ± straight upper margin. Pistil tomentose on the ovary and base of the style; ovules 2. Pod obliquely lanceolate, 9.5-10 x 3.8-4.2 mm, tomentose(-woolly).