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Bossiaea dentata (R.Br.) Benth.

Reference
Fl.Austral. 2:156 (1864)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or straggly shrub, 0.5-2 m high. Fl. red/green & red/yellow-green-brown, May to Nov. Loam, sand over quartzite or granite, laterite. Along creeks, rocky hills & mountains, outcrops, flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 24 May 1996

Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite, not continuous with stem, 12-37 mm long, 3-25 mm wide, glabrous, flat with flat margins or flat with recurved margins; margins entire; tuberculate; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 2.7-3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles 3.5-4 mm long, glabrous, not striate. Calyx 9-12 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 28-40 mm long, multicoloured, mostly red, green or brown, with some yellow, red, green or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 20-27 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 20-32 mm long, not auriculate, keel 17-37 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, hairy at least in part. Stamens ten; anthers 0.8 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments united in an open sheath, 33-35 mm long. Ovary stipitate, glabrous; style 33 mm long, glabrous, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), 26-28 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in May, June, July, August, September, October and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Denmark, Esperance, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe.