Bossiaea milesiae

Bossiaea milesiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with flattened, winged cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to apricot-coloured and red flowers.

Description
Bossiaea milesiae is an erect shrub that typically grows up to 2.5 m high with flattened cladodes up to 10 mm wide, and that forms rhizomes. The leaves are reduced to coppery-brown scales, 1.0–2.5 mm long. The flowers are borne on pedicels 2–4 mm long and have four to eight scales up to 1 mm long at the base. The five sepals are 4.5–5.3 mm long and joined at the base forming a tube with lobes 1.0–1.2 mm long, the two upper lobes about 1.5 mm wide and the lower three lobes about 1.0 mm wide. There are also bracteoles that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is deep yellow to apricot with a red base and 9.5–11.0 mm long, the wings yellow with a red base and 8.5–10 mm wide, and the keel red with a paler base and 9–10 mm long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is an oblong pod 27–35 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea milesiae was first formally described in 2009 by Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected near Brogo Dam in 2006. The specific epithet (milesiae) honours the botanist Jackie Miles.

Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in forest and woodland, sometimes in river beds, mostly in and near Wadbilliga National Park in south-eastern New South Wales.