Rigid erect shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets spinescent, flattened, longitudinally striate, often with short appressed hairs when young. Leaves alternate, unifoliolate, shortly petiolate, broadly obovate to obcordate or almost orbicular, c. 3–6 mm long and wide, glabrous or almost so; apex retuse; stipules ± triangular, 1–2 mm long. Flowers solitary, mostly 8–10 mm long; pedicels to 5 mm long; bracts to 1 mm long, soon deciduous; bracteoles to 2 mm long, inserted in lower half of pedicel, soon deciduous; calyx 3–5 mm long, lobes shorter than tube; petals ± equal in length: standard mainly yellow; ovary ± sessile, glabrous, c. 4-ovuled. Pod narrow-oblong, 1.5–2 cm long; stipe c. equal to calyx. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
VVP, GipP, CVU, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. Occurs sporadically in south-west, central and eastern Victoria, favouring dry ridges and slopes in open-forest.
Source:
Ross, J.H. (1996). Bossiaea. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 808–815. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
