Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Bossiaea obcordata
Spiny bossiaea
Fabaceae
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, often on sandstone. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally on the Western Slopes.
Shrub to 2 m tall. Ends of the branchlets spiny. Stems more or less flat to cylindrical, ridged, hairy, at least when young. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.3-0.6 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, more or less hairless, tips rounded or notched. Flowers mostly 8-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Front of standard petal yellow with a red flare, back red, wings purplish brown throughout or sometimes dirty yellow at the tip, keel pinkish grading to darker red. Flowers Winter to Spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~obcordata (accessed 5 January, 2021)
Description partly based on Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 145-146
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