Bossiaea pulchella
Bossiaea pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, and orange-yellow, purplish brown and dark red flowers. Description
Bossiaea pulchella is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  with densely hairy branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped with a heart-shaped base,  long and  wide on a petiole  long with triangular stipules  long at the base. The flowers are arranged singly on glabrous pedicels  long, with bracts about  long attached to the pedicels. There are oblong bracteoles  long on the pedicels. The five sepals are joined at the base, forming a tube  long, the lobes  but the two upper lobes broader than the lower lobes. The standard petal is orange-yellow with a purplish-brown base and  long, the wings  long, and the keel is dark red and  long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a pod  long.<ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=James H. |title=A conspectus of the Western Australian Bossiaea species (Bossiaeeae: Fabaceae). Muelleria 23: |journal=Muelleria |date=2006 |volume=11 |pages=39–43 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278250#page/41/mode/1up |access-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>

Taxonomy and namingBossiaea pulchella was first formally described in 1844 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected on the Darling Scarp in 1839. The specific epithet (pulchella) means "small and beautiful". Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea usually grows in lateritic soil in woodland in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation statusBossiaea pulchella'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. References

pulchella
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1844
Taxa named by Carl Meissner