Rafnia elliptica Thunb.

Erect, robust, much-branched suffrutex up to 0.9 m high. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, penninerved, sometimes involute when young; leaves on flowering branches (37-)45 x 9-20 mm; basal leaves 53-85(-98) x 16-31 mm. Inflorescences single-or rarely 2-3-flowered, sometimes pedunculate. Flowers large, (12-)15-23 mm long. Pedicel 7-11 mm long. Bract 1.5-2 mm long. Bracteoles 0.3-1 mm long. Calyx lobes longer than the tube, 6-10(-13) mm long; upper lobes falcate to broadly falcate, broader than others; upper sinus sometimes deeper than the others; tube with a ridge between the upper lobes, 5-6 mm long, Standard ovate or broadly elliptic or suborbicular, 13-19 x 13-19 mm, often with basal callosities; apex obtuse or refuse; base cordate; claw 2-4 mm long. Wings oblong to oblong-obovate, ± as long as the keel, 10-17 x 4-8 mm, with 6-9 rows of sculpturing; apex obliquely obtuse; lower margin broadly convex; claw 5-7 mm long. Keel narrowly rostrate, sometimes ± strongly upcurved, 9-17 x 4-7 mm; claw 5-7 mm long. Pistil with the ovary oblong to narrowly ovate; style shorter than the ovary, gently to strongly upcurved; ovules 2. Pods obliquely lanceolate, 30-49 x 8-11 mm, surface often prominently veined; upper margin straight; lower margin straight, proximally convex. Seeds broadly oblong reniform, 4-5 x 3-4 mm; testa smooth.