Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bossiaea lenticularis
Common name
None
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, often on moist sites, chiefly in the Sydney area west to Lithgow and south to Thirlmere.
Notes
Shrub to about 1.5 m tall. Stems cylindrical, hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, mostly round, 0.2-0.8 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, upper surface darker than the lower surface, margins curved down or flat. Flowers 6–12 mm long; pea-shaped with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow with red markings, wings yellow, keel pale at the base, dark reddish towards the tip.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~lenticularis (accessed 5 January, 2021)
Description partly based on Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 129-130, Figs 6, 7 (map)
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