''Bossiaea lenticularis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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to eastern New South Wales. It is a slender, spreading shrub with mostly circular leaves, and yellow and red flowers.
Description
''Bossiaea lenticularis'' is a slender spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and is more or less
glabrous. The leaves are mostly circular, long in diameter with
stipules up to long at the base. The flowers are long, each flower on a
pedicel
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
...
up to about long with a few
bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...
s up to long. The
sepal
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s are long joined at the base with
bracteoles on the pedicel. The
standard petal is yellow with red markings, the
wings yellow and the
keel
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dark reddish with a paler base. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is an oblong to egg-shaped
pod
Pod or POD may refer to:
Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
* Pod of whales or other marine mammals
* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
* Proper ort ...
long.
Taxonomy and naming
''Bossiaea lenticularis'' was first formally described in 1825 by
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in ''
Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis
''Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' (1824–1873), also known by its standard botanical abbreviation ''Prodr. (DC.)'', is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. De Candolle intended it as a summa ...
'' from an unpublished description by
Franz Sieber.
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 ...
(''lenticularis'') means "lens-shaped".
Distribution and habitat
This bossiaea grows in forest, mainly in the Sydney region and as far inland as
Lithgow.
References
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lenticularis
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1825
Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle