Bossiaea rupicola
Bossiaea rupicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with silky-hairy, narrow egg-shaped to narrow elliptic leaves and red flowers with yellow markings.
Description
Bossiaea rupicola is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has silky-hairy young stems that become glabrous with age. The leaves are arranged in two vertical rows along the stems and are narrow egg-shaped to narrow elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long with stipules up to long at the base. The leaves have silky hairs pressed against both surfaces, but become glabrous with age.The flowers are about long on pedicels long with a few bracts less than long at the base and similar bracteoles near the base of the pedicel. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes long and wide, the lower lobes shorter and narrower. The standard petal is yellow with a red back and up to long, the wings are wide, and the keel is red and longer than the standard. Flowering occurs from late winter to spring and the fruit is a more or less oblong pod long.