Rafnia angulata Thunb.

Robust, virgate suffrutex up to 2.2 m high or a virgate shrublet up to 0.5 m high or a procumbent shrublet up to 0.3 m high. Leaves variable, ericoid or linear or obovate; leaves on flowering branches usually subopposite to opposite or rarely invariably alternate, 6-46 x 0.5-14 mm; basal leaves 9-45 x 0.5-18 mm. Inflorescences single-or less often 2-6-flowered. Flowers 8-20 mm long. Pedicel 4-11 mm long. Bract narrowly triangular, ± leafy or not ± leafy, 0.5-2 mm long. Bracteoles 0.2-1 mm long. Calyx lobes much shorter to much longer than the tube, 1-7 mm long; upper lobes non-falcate to broadly falcate, often broader or much broader than the others; lateral lobes triangular or falcate; carinal lobe shorter or longer than others; upper sinus often deeper than the others; tube 2-6 mm long. Standard ovate or obovate or elliptic or round, 6-17 x 5-18 mm, often with an apical cusp; claw 1-5 mm long. Wings oblong or subtriangular or obliquely triangular, shorter than or ± as long as the keel, 5-15 x 2-7 mm, with 4-12 rows of sculpturing; apex narrow or obtuse or obliquely obtuse; claw 2-7 mm long. Keel shortly rostrate to long-rostrate, 6-15 x 3-7 mm, with a broad upper basal pocket; claw 2-5 mm long. Stamens usually monadelphous or rarely diadelphous. Pistil with the ovary oblong or linear; style shorter to longer than the ovary strongly upcurved; ovules 2-5; stigma usually glabrous, rarely fibrillose. Pods obliquely oblanceolate or rarely obliquely lanceolate or ± oblong, 15-35 x 4-8 mm; upper margin asymmetrically convex; lower margin ± straight. Seeds narrowly oblong to broadly reniform, 3-6 x 2-4mm, testa smooth.

It is a subtropical plant.