Bossiaea nummularia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a prostrate to low-lying sub-shrub with moderately hairy foliage, mostly broadly elliptic leaves, and yellow and red flowers.
Bossiaea nummularia is a prostrate to low-lying sub-shrub that typically grows up to high, and has moderately hairy foliage. The leaves are usually broadly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long with narrow triangular stipules long at the base. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts long at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes wide, the lower lobes about wide. There are bracteoles long near the middle of the pedicel. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and up to long, the wings mostly brownish red, and the keel red and paler near the tip. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a narrow oblong pod long.[1] [2]
Bossiaea nummularia was first formally described in 1839 by Stephan Endlicher in Novarum Stirpium Decades from specimens grown in the garden of Charles von Hügel.[3]
This bossiaea grows in woodland and open forest, mostly in the Sydney region and in areas south of Goulburn.[4]