Bossiaea saxosa
Bossiaea saxosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Norseman, Western Australia. It is an erect, intricately branched shrub with many slightly flattened, sharply-pointed cladodes and deep yellow, red and lemon-yellow, pea-like flowers. Description
Bossiaea saxosa is an erect, intricately-branched shrub that typically grows up to  high and wide with hairy young growth. The branches are slightly flattened, ending in sharply pointed cladodes  wide. The leaves, when present, are reduced to dark, reddish-brown scales  long. The flowers are arranged singly at nodes along the cladodes, each flower on a hairy pedicel up to  long with egg-shaped bracts up to  long at the base and egg-shaped bracteoles  long on the pedicels. The five sepals are hairy and joined at the base, forming a tube  long, the two upper lobes  long and the lower lobes  long. The standard petal is deep yellow with a red base and  long, the wings deep yellow and  long, and the keel lemon-yellow and  long. Flowering occurs from September to early October and the fruit is an oblong 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=129–130 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/278250#page/131/mode/1up |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>

Taxonomy and namingBossiaea saxosa was first formally described in 1994 by James Henderson Ross in the journal Muelleria from specimens he collected near Norseman in 2000. The specific epithet (saxosa) means "of rocky or stony places". Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea is only known from a small area north of Norseman where it grows in woodland. Conservation statusBossiaea saxosa'' is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is known from only one or a few locations which are potentially at risk. References

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Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 2006