Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Bossiaea lenticularis
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Fabaceae
Dry forest, often on moist sites, chiefly in the Sydney area west to Lithgow and south to Thirlmere.
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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