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Bossiaea oligosperma
Bossiaea oligosperma, commonly known as few-seeded bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with broadly egg-shaped to more or less round leaves with a small point on the tip, and yellow and red flowers.
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Description
Bossiaea oligosperma is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in), and has hairy young stems. The leaves are broadly elliptic to more or less round, 2.5–5 mm (0.098–0.197 in) long and wide long with dark brown stipules 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long at the base. The lower surface of the leaves is hairy and there is a short, down-turned point on the tip. The flowers are 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long and borne singly in leaf axils with reddish bracts at the base. The five sepals are 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and joined at the base forming a tube with lobes about 1 mm (0.039 in) long. There are bracteoles about 1 mm (0.039 in) long near the base of the pedicel. The standard petal and wings are yellow with red markings, and the keel is pink to dark red. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is an elliptic pod 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long.
Range & habitat
This bossiaea grows in forest, and is found between Warragamba and the Araluen Valley in eastern New South Wales.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1243856.