Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bossiaea milesiae
Common name
None
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland above streams, occasionally in rocky and sandy river beds. Brogo River catchment. Coast and ranges between Bega and Cobargo, mostly in and near Wadbilliga National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall, rhizomatous. Stems mostly 4–8 mm wide, flat becoming oval to cylindrical, hairless to sparsely hairy, green. Leaves reduced to scales 0.12-0.2 cm long, about 1 mm wide. Flowers pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Calyx 3.5-5.3 mm long, calyx lobes unequal. Standard petal 9.5-11 mm long, about 12 mm wide, yellow to apricot inside, marked with red, yellow to apricot outside, wings yellow with red markings near the base inside, keel red with a pale base. Flowers Winter to Spring.
No PlantNET description (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) 358–359.
Later description in Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 166-167
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