Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bossiaea foliosa

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, Badja Forest Road north east of Cooma

Pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Mt Gingera, ACT

Common name

Leafy bossiaea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, wet gullies, and near sphagnum bogs, usually at high altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and the ranges. Rarely coastal.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems cylindrical, hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.15-0.4 cm long, 0.15-3.5 mm wide, often folded upwards from the midrib, upper surface hairless, lower surface with appressed white hairs or rarely hairless. Flowers 5-8 mm long, pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Petals yellow. Flowers Winter to Summer.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~foliosa (accessed 5 January, 2020)