Bossiaea flexuosa
Bossiaea flexuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a compact shrub with slightly flattened, zigzag branches, notched, more or less leafless cladodes, and golden yellow and red or pinkish flowers.

Description
Bossiaea flexuosa is a compact shrub that typically grows up to  high and  wide with zigzag branches that are slightly flattened to oval in cross-section, and notched cladodes  wide. The leaves are reduced to broadly egg-shaped scales  long and  wide, reddish at first then turning black. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs or threes, each flower on a pedicel  long with overlapping, egg-shaped bracts up to  long. The sepals are joined at the base forming a tube  long, with five lobes, the two upper lobes  long and the three lower lobes  long, with egg-shaped bracteoles  long on the pedicel. The standard petal is golden yellow with a pinkish-red base and  long, the wings  long and the keel is deep purplish-red with a greenish-yellow base and  long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an oblong pod  long.

Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea flexuosa was first formally described in 2006 by James Henderson Ross in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected south-west of Salmon Gums in 1998. The specific epithet (flexuosa) means "zigzag", referring to the shape of the young stems.

Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in deep sand in kwongan, open mallee or woodland mostly between Norseman, Hyden and Salmon Gums in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and  Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia.

Conservation status
Bossiaea flexuosa is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.

References

flexuosa
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 2006