Bossiaea eremaea J.H.Ross

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 5-5.5 mm long, 3-25 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire or lobed; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous. Calyx 4.3-5.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-10 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red or brown, with some yellow, red or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9-9.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-8.4 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-8.5 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 6.5-8 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 5.3-9 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 14-22 mm long, 7.5-8 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean Botanical Province, in the Murchison and Great Victorian Desert IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).