''Bossiaea brownii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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to eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.
Description
''Bossiaea brownii'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has hairy branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped, mostly long and wide on a
petiole long with narrow triangular
stipules long at the base. The flowers are usually borne on short side branches, each flower on a
pedicel
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Human anatomy
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long with a
bract
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long and similarly-sized
bracteoles at the base. The
sepal
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s are long and joined at the base with the upper lobes long and the lower lobes slightly shorter. The
standard petal is yellow with a red base and about long, the
wings purplish and long, and the
keel
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pink grading to dark red and slightly longer than the standard petal. Flowering occurs in most months and the fruit is an oblong to elliptic
pod
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Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
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* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
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long.
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Taxonomy
''Bossiaea brownii'' was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in '' Flora Australiensis'', including from specimens collected by Robert Brown at Port Bowen.[
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Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in woodland and forest, often in gorges and is found south from Shoalwater Bay and as far inland as Springsure
Springsure is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. It is south of Emerald, Queensland, Emerald on the Gregory Highway. It is the southern terminus of the Gregory Highwa ...
in eastern Queensland.[
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References
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brownii
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 1864
Taxa named by George Bentham