Bossiaea bombayensis
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|species = bombayensis
|authority = K.L.McDougall{{cite web|title=Bossiaea bombayensis|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/208390|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=10 July 2021}}
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Bossiaea bombayensis, commonly known as bombay bossiaea,{{cite web |title=Bombay bossiaea - profile |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20125 |publisher=New South Wales Government Office of Environment and Heritage |access-date=10 July 2021}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with flattened cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to red flowers.
Description
Bossiaea bombayensis is an erect shrub that typically grows up to {{cvt|1.5|m}} high with flattened cladodes {{cvt|2–5|mm}} wide, and that forms rhizomes. The leaves are reduced to reddish-brown scales, {{cvt|1.3–2|mm}} long. The flowers are borne on pedicels {{cvt|1.5–3|mm}} long and have four or six brown scales {{cvt|1–2|mm}} long at the base. The five sepals are {{cvt|3.5–4.5|mm}} long and joined at the base forming a tube, the two upper lobes {{cvt|1.0–1.5|mm}} long and the lower three lobes about {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long. There are also bracteoles {{cvt|2.5–3.2|mm}} long but that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and {{cvt|6.5–8.0|mm}} long, the wings yellow with a brownish red base and about {{cvt|2.5|mm}} wide and the keel is pale pink to red and {{cvt|3.5|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a narrow oblong pod {{cvt|20–30|mm}} long.{{cite journal |last1=McDougall |first1=Keith L. |title=Four new species related to Bossiaea bracteosa F.Muell. ex Benth. in south-eastern Australia |journal=Telopea |date=2009 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=351–354 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/266892#page/47/mode/1up |access-date=7 August 2021}}{{cite web |title=Bossiaea bombayensis |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~bombayensis |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=10 July 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Betty |title=Bossiaea bombayensis |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/bossiaea_bombayensis.htm |publisher=Lucid Keys |access-date=10 July 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Ian R. |title=A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae) |journal=Muelleria |date=2012 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=167–168 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/279580#page/89/mode/1up |access-date=7 August 2021}}
Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea bombayensis was first formally described in 2009 by Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea from specimens collected near the Shoalhaven River near Bombay.{{cite web|title=Bossiaea bombayensis|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/651607 |publisher=APNI|access-date=10 July 2021}}
Distribution and habitat
Bombay bossiaea grows in shrubland on steep rocky slopes between Warri and Bombay near Braidwood on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales.
Conservation status
This bossiaeae is listed as critically endangered under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.{{cite web |title=Bombay Bossiaea - profile |url=https://threatenedspecies.bionet.nsw.gov.au/profile?id=20125 |publisher=New South Wales Government; Office of Environment ane Heritage |access-date=19 September 2024}}