Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Bossiaea rhombifolia
Common name
A Bossiaea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Mostly in the Sydney area and Blue Mountains. Ranges as far south as Wadbilliga National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall, mostly hairless. Stems more or less flat at least when young, more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.2 cm long, 3-12 mm wide. Flowers 7-12 mm long, pea shaped with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Front of standard petal yellow with a red flare, back partly flushed red, wings predominantly but sometimes patchily brownish red, keel pinkish grading to dark purplish red. Flowers Winter to Spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~rhombifolia (accessed 5 January, 2020)
Description partly based on Thompson, I.R., (2012) A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae). Muelleria 30(2): 150-151
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