Bossiaea oxyclada
Bossiaea oxyclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, rigid shrub with flattened branches, cladodes ending with a sharp point, leaves mostly reduced to small scales, and golden yellow and deep red flowers. Description
Bossiaea oxyclada is an erect, rigid shrub that typically grows to  high,  wide and has flattened branches and cladodes  wide ending in a sharp point. The leaves on older growth are reduced to triangular scales  long. New growth sometimes has more or less round leaves  long and  wide on a petiole  long with stipules  long at the base. The flowers are arranged singly in nodes on a pedicel  long with overlapping, pinkish-brown bracts up to  long at the base and bracteoles near the middle of the pedicels. The sepals are joined at the base forming a tube  long, the two upper lobes slightly longer than the lower three lobes. The standard petal is golden yellow with a red base,  long, the wings are  long and the keel deep red and  long. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Bossiaea oxyclada was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet (oxyclada) means "sharp branch". Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea is found in the western part of the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions, where it grows in a sandplain community with scattered eucalypts. Conservation status
Bossiaea oxyclada is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that it is rare or near threatened. References

oxyclada
Flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow
Plants described in 1853