Rafnia alata G.J.Campb. & B.-e.van Wyk

Procumbent, mat-like shrublet up to 0.4 m high. Leaves obovate to round or lanceolate; leaves on flowering branches 25-51 x 7-19 mm; basal leaves 18-54 x 3-32 mm. Inflorescences single-flowered. Flowers 14-25 mm long. Pedicel 3-8 mm long. Bract narrowly lanceolate, large, leaf-like or narrowly triangular or absent, 1-5 mm long. Bracteoles 0.3-0.9 mm long. Calyx long; lobes longer than the tube, 7-16 mm long; upper lobes broadly falcate, much broader or not much broader than the others; lateral lobes slightly falcate; tube with wing-like extensions between all the lobes, 3-8 mm long. Standard ovate or broadly elliptic, 11-19 x 12-23 mm, often with basal callosities; apex obtuse or refuse; claw 2-5 mm long. Wings oblong or obovate, 8-15 x 4-10 mm, with 4-6 rows of sculpturing; claw 3-5 mm long. Keel rostrate, often ± strongly upcurved, 8-11 x 4-6 mm; claw 4-6 mm long. Pistil with the ovary oblong; style shorter than or ± as long as the ovary, upcurved or strongly upcurved; ovules 2. Pods narrowly obliquely lanceolate, 20-30 x 3-5 mm; upper margin straight; lower margin proximally convex.