Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bossiaea buxifolia
Common name
Matted bossiaea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
A range of habitats, mostly dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Widespread.
Notes
Prostrate or sprawling shrub to 0.5 m tall, occasionally erect, to 1.3 m tall. Stems cylindrical, sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, elliptical to round, 0.2-0.7 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, upper surface darker than the lower surface, margins curved down, bases often more or less cordate. Leaf stalks less than 1 mm long, without a joint. Flowers 6-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, Front of standard petal yellow with a red flare, back brown to dark red, wings red and purplish, sometimes yellowish at the tips, keel dark red to purplish. flowers single. Flowers Spring 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~buxifolia (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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