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Bossiaea oxyclada Turcz.

Reference
Bull.Soc.Imp.Naturalistes Moscou 26:284 (1853)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, 0.35-0.5 m high, leafless, rigid, glaucous. Spongolitic loam. Breakaway slope.

Helen Coleman, Descriptive Catalogue, 3 December 1998

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades absent or apparently so (reduced to scales), alternate, not continuous with stem, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent, 1; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-3 mm long, glabrous. Calyx 4-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 7-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 6.5-10 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8.2 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 8.5 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 20-23 mm long, 6-7 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in September and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Four (P4).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Jerramungup, Lake Grace.