Bossiaea neoanglica



Bossiaea neoanglica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrub with sparsely hairy foliage, egg-shaped to more or less round leaves, and yellow and red flowers.

Description
Bossiaea neoanglica is prostrate to low-lying shrub that typically grows up to 50 cm high, sometimes higher when supported by other shrubs, and has sparsely hairy foliage. The leaves are arranged alternately, egg-shaped to more or less round 2–8 mm long and 2–7 mm wide on a petiole 0.5–0.8 mm long. The lower surface of the leaves is much paler than the upper surface and there are stipules 2.0–3.5 mm long at the base of the petiole. The flowers are 6–9 mm long, borne on pedicels 2–5 mm long with a few minute bracts at the base. The five sepals are 3–5 mm long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes 2.0–2.5 mm long, the lower lobes 1.0–1.5 mm long. There are bracteoles 1.0–1.2 mm long near the base of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow with a red base, the wings pale purplish brown, and the keel red with a paler base, all petals up to about 8 mm long. Flowering occurs from spring to summer and the fruit is an oblong pod 15–25 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea neoanglica was first formally described in 1866 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Charles Moore near the Macleay River in the New England region of New South Wales.

Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in open forest and woodland from Kroombit Tops National Park in south east Queensland and south along the coast and tablelands of eastern New South Wales to Fitzroy Falls.