Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Bossiaea fragrans

Flower on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower, bud, and stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

None

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Woodland in Abercrombie Karst Conservation Reserve south of Bathurst.

Notes

Shrub to about 2.5 m tall, rhizomatous. Stems 6-14 mm wide, flattened, winged, becoming round or oval in cross section but retaining remnants of the wings, margins minutely uneven or warty, hairless, grey, with a waxy coating. Leafless except for leaf scales 0.1-0.25 cm long, less than 1 mm wide. Flowers pea-shaped with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow with red markings, to 12 mm long. Wings yellow. Keel dark red. Flowers Spring.

Critically endangered Australia. Critically endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

No PlantNET description (15 April 2021).

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20122 (accessed 15 April 2021)

Description in McDougall, K.L., (2009) Four new species related to Bossiaea bracteosa F.Muell. ex Benth. in south-eastern Australia Telopea 12(3) 356–358

Later description in Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 166, Fig. 14 (map)