Bossiaea scortechinii
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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 {{cvt|0.4|m}} high and {{cvt|1|m}} wide. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|5–15|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–5|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.5–0.8|mm}} long. The flowers are about {{cvt|7|mm}} long on pedicels mostly {{cvt|3–9|mm}} long with a few bracts {{cvt|1–2|mm}} long at the base and narrow oblong to linear bracteoles about {{cvt|1.0–2.5|mm}} long near the middle of the pedicel. The five sepals are {{cvt|3–5|mm}} long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes {{cvt|2–3|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} wide, the lower lobes {{cvt|0.7–1.0|mm}} wide. The standard petal is orange-yellow sometimes with a red base, and about {{cvt|10|mm}} long, the wings yellow, about the same length as the keel and about {{cvt|1.5|mm}} wide, and the keel pink and about {{cvt|2–3|mm}} wide. Flowering mainly occurs in spring and the fruit is a hairy, oblong pod {{cvt|10–20|mm}} long.{{cite web |title=Bossiaea scortechinii |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bossiaea~scortechinii |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=2 September 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=142–143 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/279580#page/64/mode/1up |access-date=2 September 2021}}
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.{{cite web|title=Bossiaea scortechinii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/468699 |publisher=APNI|access-date=2 September 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |title=Definitions of some new Australian plants [continued.] |journal=Southern Science Record |date=1883 |volume=3 |issue=1 |page=1 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148604#page/11/mode/1up |access-date=2 September 2021}}
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.
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Category:Flora of New South Wales