Bossiaea nummularia
Bossiaea nummularia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a prostrate to low-lying sub-shrub with moderately hairy foliage, mostly broadly elliptic leaves, and yellow and red flowers.
Description
Bossiaea nummularia is a prostrate to low-lying sub-shrub that typically grows up to high, and has moderately hairy foliage. The leaves are usually broadly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long with narrow triangular stipules long at the base. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts long at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes wide, the lower lobes about wide. There are bracteoles long near the middle of the pedicel. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and up to long, the wings mostly brownish red, and the keel red and paler near the tip. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a narrow oblong pod long.
Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea nummularia was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in Novarum Stirpium Decades from specimens grown in the garden of Charles von Hügel.
This bossiaea grows in woodland and open forest, mostly in the Sydney region and in areas south of Goulburn.