Bossiaea arenicola

Bossiaea arenicola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a far north Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with broadly elliptic to more or less round leaves, and yellow and pale greenish flowers.

Description
Bossiaea arenicola is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to about 8 m. The leaves are elliptic to more or less round, 8–15 mm long and 17–15 mm wide on a petiole 1–2 mm long with brown stipules about 1 mm long at the base. The flowers are borne on short side shoots on a pedicel 1–5 mm long with a single bract 1–1.5 mm long. The sepals are 4–5 mm and joined at the base forming a tube with the two upper lobes triangular 1.5–2.0 mm long and the lower three lobes 1.3–2 mm long. The standard petal is yellow, up to 13 mm long, the wings 1–2 mm long and the keel pale greenish yellow and about the same length as the standard. Flowering occurs from April to June and the fruit is a oblong to elliptic pod about 20 mm long.

Taxonomy
Bossiaea arenicola was first formally described in 1991 by James Henderson Ross in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected on the track to the McIvor River on Cape York Peninsula. The specific epithet (arenicola) means "sand inhabitant".

Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows on sand dunes in heath and shrubland from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to near Cooktown.