Rafnia spicata Thunb.

Procumbent, mat-like shrublet, much-branched from the base, up to 0.3 m high, 1.5 m wide. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly obovate to ovate, bright green, often remaining so when dry; leaves on flowering branches subopposite to opposite, (11-)17-26 x 2-6(-10) mm; basal leaves 18-40 x 4-18 mm. Inflorescences single-flowered, secondarily aggregated towards branch ends into spike-like flowering branches. Flowers very small, 6-8 mm long. Pedicel 2-3 mm long. Bract linear to narrowly triangular, 0.4-0.6(-0.9) mm long. Bracteoles minute to subulate, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular to narrowly triangular, ± as long as or shorter than the tube, 1-2 mm long; upper lobes broader than the others; tube 1-2 mm long. Standard broadly elliptic to suborbicular, lower half of the edges often folded in, 5-7 x 5-7 mm, without an apical cusp; claw 2-3 mm long. Wings oblong, 5-7 x 2-3 mm, sometimes with 2-4 rows of sculpturing; apex obtuse; claw not broadly attached to the blade, 2-3 mm long. Keel variable, ± acute to almost rostrate or obtuse or sometimes slightly asymmetrically truncate or emarginate, 5-6 x 2-3 mm; claw 2-3 mm long. Stamens monadelphous, with sheath straight, not widening towards the base. Pistil with the stigma small, fibrillose; ovules 2. Pods ± narrowly oblong, 10-15 x 3-4 mm; stipe 4-6 mm long; upper margin straight; lower margin straight, proximally sharply tapering into the stipe. Seeds oblong to broadly reniform, almost oblique-cordiform, 2-31-2 mm; sinus shallow; testa rough.