Bossiaea dentata
Bossiaea dentata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, sometimes prostrate shrub with variably-shaped leaves and greenish-yellow or pink to burgundy-coloured flowers. Description
Bossiaea dentata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to  high, often with arching stems, but sometimes prostrate in exposed places. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped, or triangular to lance-shaped, sometimes linear,  long and  wide on a petiole  long with an egg-shaped stipule  long at the base. The edges of the leaves have irregular teeth and are sometimes rolled under. The flowers are usually arranged singly, each flower on a pedicel with two rigid, different-sized bracts up to  long attached. The five sepals are joined at the base forming a tube  long, the two upper lobes  long and the three lower lobes slightly shorter. There are also bracteole  long but that fall off in the bud stage. The standard petal is green to yellow, pale pink to dull red or burgundy and  long, the wings  long, the keel  long. Flowering occurs from May to November and the fruit is an oblong pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1812 by Robert Brown who gave it the name Scottia dentata in William Aiton's Hortus Kewensis. In 1864, George Bentham changed the name to Bossiaea dentata in Flora Australiensis. The specific epithet (dentata) means "toothed", referring to the edges of the leaves. Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in mallee, heath and scrub, often around large granite outcrops and is found from near Albany to the Cape Arid National Park and on some offshore islands, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions of southern Western Australia. Conservation status
Bossiaea dentata is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. References

dentata
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1812
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)