Bossiaea milesiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with flattened, winged cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to apricot-coloured and red flowers.
Bossiaea milesiae is an erect shrub that typically grows up to high with flattened cladodes up to wide, and that forms rhizomes. The leaves are reduced to coppery-brown scales, long. The flowers are borne on pedicels long and have four to eight scales up to long at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube with lobes long, the two upper lobes about wide and the lower three lobes about wide. There are also bracteoles that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is deep yellow to apricot with a red base and long, the wings yellow with a red base and wide, and the keel red with a paler base and long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is an oblong pod long.[1] [2] [3]
Bossiaea milesiae was first formally described in 2009 by Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea from specimens he collected near Brogo Dam in 2006.[4] The specific epithet (milesiae) honours the botanist Jackie Miles.
This bossiaea grows in forest and woodland, sometimes in river beds, mostly in and near Wadbilliga National Park in south-eastern New South Wales.