Bossiaea fragrans
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|status_system = EPBC
|status = CR
|genus = Bossiaea
|species = fragrans
|authority = K.L.McDougall{{cite web|title=Pultenaea fragrans|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/223340|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=29 July 2021}}
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Pultenaea fragrans 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 and red flowers.
Description
Bossiaea fragrans is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1.0–2.5|m}} with flattened, winged cladodes {{cvt|8–14|mm}} wide. The leaves are reduced to dark brown scales, {{cvt|1.5–1.9|mm}} long. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to six, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|2.5–3|mm}} long with overlapping, narrow egg-shaped bracts up to {{cvt|1.5|mm}} long at the base. The five sepals are {{cvt|4.5–5.0|mm}} long and joined at the base forming a tube, the two upper lobes about {{cvt|1.5|mm}} wide and the lower three lobes about {{cvt|1.0|mm}} wide. There are also bracteoles but that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and {{cvt|10.5–12.0|mm}} long, the wings yellow with a red base and about {{cvt|10–11|mm}} long and the keel is dark red and {{cvt|10–11|mm}} wide. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is an oblong pod {{cvt|24–38|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=356–358}}{{cite web |last1=Major |first1=Richard |title=Bossiaea fragrans - critically endangered species listing |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/threatened-species/nsw-threatened-species-scientific-committee/determinations/final-determinations/2008-2010/bossiaea-fragrans-critically-endangered-species-listing |publisher=New South Wales Government Department of Planning, Industry and Environment |access-date=29 July 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Betty |title=Bossiaea fragrans |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/bossiaea_fragrans.htm |publisher=Lucid Keys |access-date=29 July 2021}}
Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea fragrans was first formally described in 2009 by Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected in the Abercrombie Karst Conservation Area.{{cite web|title=Bossiaea fragrans|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/651609 |publisher=APNI|access-date=29 July 2021}}
Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea is only known from two populations near Abercrombie Caves on the southern tablelands of New South Wales where it grows in woodland.{{cite web |title=Bossiaea fragrans |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~fragrans |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=29 July 2021}}
Conservation status
Bossiaea fragrans is listed as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.