Bossiaea scortechinii

Bossiaea scortechinii 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 simple, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and orange-yellow flowers with red to pinkish markings.

Description
Bossiaea scortechinii is a prostrate to low-lying shrub that typically grows to up to 0.4 m high and 1 m wide. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5–15 mm long and 2–5 mm wide on a petiole 0.5–0.8 mm long. The flowers are about 7 mm long on pedicels mostly 3–9 mm long with a few bracts 1–2 mm long at the base and narrow oblong to linear bracteoles about 1.0–2.5 mm long near the middle of the pedicel. The five sepals are 3–5 mm long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes 2–3 mm long and 1.5–2.0 mm wide, the lower lobes 0.7–1.0 mm wide. The standard petal is orange-yellow sometimes with a red base, and about 10 mm long, the wings yellow, about the same length as the keel and about 1.5 mm wide, and the keel pink and about 2–3 mm wide. Flowering mainly occurs in spring and the fruit is a hairy, oblong pod 10–20 mm long.

Taxonomy
Bossiaea scortechinii was first formally described in 1883 by Ferdinand von Mueller in the Southern Science Record from specimens collected by Benedetto Scortechini near the Dumaresq River near Stanthorpe.

Distribution and habitat
Bossiaea scortechinii grows in forest on sandy or granitic soils between Miriam Vale in south-eastern Queensland and Inverell in north-eastern New South Wales.