''Bossiaea arenicola'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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to a far north Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with broadly elliptic to more or less round leaves, and yellow and pale greenish flowers.
Description
''Bossiaea arenicola'' is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to about . The leaves are elliptic to more or less round, long and wide on a
petiole long with brown
stipule
In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole). Stipules are considered part of the anatomy of the leaf of a typical flowering plant, although in many speci ...
s about long at the base. The flowers are borne on short side shoots on a
pedicel
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...
long with a single
bract
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long. The
sepal
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s are and joined at the base forming a tube with the two upper lobes triangular long and the lower three lobes long. The
standard Standard may refer to:
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petal is yellow, up to long, the
wings
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long and the
keel
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pale greenish yellow and about the same length as the standard. Flowering occurs from April to June and the fruit is a oblong to elliptic
pod about long.
Taxonomy
''Bossiaea arenicola'' was first formally described in 1991 by
James Henderson Ross
James Henderson Ross (born 1941) is an Australian botanist.
Authority abbreviation
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, James Henderson
Living people
1941 births
20th-century Australian botanists ...
in the journal ''
Muelleria'' from specimens collected on the track to the McIvor River on
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación ...
.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''arenicola'') means "sand inhabitant".
Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows on sand dunes in heath and shrubland from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to near
Cooktown
Cooktown is a coastal town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. Cooktown is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repairs ...
.
References
External links
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium – ''Bossiaea arenicola'' occurrence data
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arenicola
''Arenicola'' is a genus of capitellid annelid worm comprising the lugworm
The lugworm or sandworm (''Arenicola marina'') is a large marine worm of the phylum Annelida. Its coiled castings are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the a ...
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1991