Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bossiaea cordifolia
Common name
None
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, and heath. Coastal south of Tathra.
Notes
Shrub to about 3 m tall. Stems cylindrical, hairy. Sharp-pointed leaves. Leaves alternating up the stems, opposite each other or whorled, 0.5-2.3 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, upper surface dark green, hairless, smooth or covered with minute warts; lower surface usually hairless except for scattered hairs on the veins, bases rounded, cordate or squared off. Flowers pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal to about 11 mm long, yellow with a red flare or completly yellow inside, often mostly red outside, wings yellow, sometimes with a small red mark, keel red. Flowers usually single. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Rare Vic.
This name has not yet been accepted by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 3 April 2021)
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/2b1c3234-1516-48dd-8967-2beacc0febd0 (accessed 3 April 2021)
Description in Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 123-124
This paper states that Bossiaea cinerea only occurs in western Victoria, and that NSW plants from the far south coast are Bossiaea cordifolia.
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