Rafnia capensis (L.) Schinz

Much-branched woody shrub up to 1 m high or an erect or procumbent shrublet up to 0.4 m high or a prostrate, decumbent shrublet up to 0.3 m high. Leaves variable, linear or lanceolate or elliptic to transverse-elliptic, or narrowly to transverse obovate or ± angular-obovate or ovate or round, often penninerved; leaves on flowering branches invariably alternate or subopposite to opposite or invariably opposite, 9-42 x 1-19 mm; basal leaves 9-60 x 1-34 mm. Inflorescences 1-45-flowered. Flowers 7-14 mm long. Pedicel 2-18 mm long. Bract narrowly triangular to linear 0.3-3 mm long. Bracteoles subulate or linear to narrowly triangular or minute or absent, 0.1-0.7 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular to narrowly triangular or upper and lateral lobes sometimes slightly falcate, shorter than or ± as long as or longer than or much longer than the tube, 1-9 mm long, upper lobes broader than the others; tube 1-4 mm long Standard oblong or elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate to broadly ovate, 5-13 x 5-12 mm, with or without an apical cusp; claw 1-4 mm long. Wings oblong or obovate or oblong, obovate or oblong-elliptic or suborbicular, shorter than, ± as long as or longer than the keel, 4-11 x 2-5 mm; apex obtuse to obovate; claw often broadly attached to the blade, 2-6 mm long. Keel obtuse or almost rostrate, slightly lobed below the apex or sy mmetrically truncate without a broad lobe below the apex or asymmetrically truncate to emarginate with a broad lobe below the apex, 5-9 x 3-5 mm; claw 2-5 mm long. Stamens usually monadelphous or rarely diadelphous. Pistil with the style incurved or not incurved towards the apex; ovules 2-4; stigma small or capitate, fibrillose. Pods oblong to broadly oblong or ± obliquely lanceolate, 12-40 x 4-12 mm; stipe 2-16 mm long; upper margin straight or slightly convex; lower margin straight, proximally convex, upcurved towards the stipe. Seeds variable in shape, oblong to cordiform or reniform or suborbicular, 3-5 x 2-4 mm; sinus deep; testa rough.