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Bossiaea heterophylla Vent.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Variable Bossiaea

Bossiaea heterophylla Vent. APNI*

Description: Variable, mostly glabrous shrub, mostly < 1 m high, stems flat, often glaucous.

Leaves alternate, distichous, 1-foliolate, often variable in shape on the same plant; lamina ovate to almost linear, 10–30 mm long, margins flat or incurved to involute; stipules triangular, c. 1 mm long.

Flowers 7–15 mm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long; bracts few, ≤ 1.5 mm long; bracteoles similar, inserted on lower part of pedicel, ± persistent. Calyx 4–6 mm long. Standard usually longer than keel, both distinctly longer than wings; standard and wings orange-yellow; keel dark reddish. Ovary stipitate, glabrous c. 8-ovuled.

Pod narrow-oblong, 2–4 cm long.


Illustration
M. Maiden

Fruit
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: April–May.

Distribution and occurrence: Common in coastal districts on sandy soils in a variety of habitats; chiefly north from Batemans Bay, also in Eden district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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