Bossiaea brownii

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Bossiaea brownii
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In Robinson Gorge, Expedition National Park
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Bossiaea
Species:
B. brownii
Binomial name
Bossiaea brownii
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Occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium [3]

Bossiaea brownii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.

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Description

Bossiaea brownii is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) and has hairy branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped, mostly 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) long and 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide on a petiole 0.5–0.8 mm (0.020–0.031 in) long with narrow triangular stipules 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long at the base. The flowers are usually borne on short side branches, each flower on a pedicel 0.5–6 mm (0.020–0.236 in) long with a bract 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long and similarly-sized bracteoles at the base. The sepals are 3.5–4.0 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long and joined at the base with the upper lobes 1–1.8 mm (0.039–0.071 in) long and the lower lobes slightly shorter. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and about 10 mm (0.39 in) long, the wings purplish and 8.0–9.5 mm (0.31–0.37 in) long, and the keel 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 15–40 mm (0.59–1.57 in) long. [4]

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. [5] [6] [7]

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 in eastern Queensland. [4]

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References

  1. "Species profile—Bossiaea brownii". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  2. "Bossiaea brownii". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  3. "Bossiaea brownii – Occurrence records". The Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 Thompson, Ian R. (2012). "A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae)". Muelleria. 30 (2): 155–156. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. "Bossiaea brownii". APNI. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  6. Bentham, George (1864). Flora Australiensis. Vol. 2. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. pp. 163–164. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  7. Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 268