Bossiaea
''Bossiaea'' is a genus of about 78 species of flowering plants in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus often have stems and branches modified as cladodes, simple, often much reduced leaves, flowers with the upper two sepal lobes larger than the lower three, usually orange to yellow petals with reddish markings, and the fruit a more or less flattened pod. Description Plants in the genus ''Bossiaea'' are shrubs, often with the stems and branches modified as cladodes, the leaves simple and often reduces to scales, usually with small stipules at the base. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils, usually with two or three small bracts or bracteoles at the base of the peduncle. There are five sepals, the upper two usually larger and united higher than the lower three. The petals are mostly orange to yellow, often with darker markings and the standard is about twice as long as the sepals. The stamens are united into a sheath that is ...
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Bossiaea Aquifolium
''Bossiaea aquifolium'', commonly known as water bush, nedik or netic, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to Southwest Australia. It is a slender shrub or small tree with egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs and yellowish flowers arranged singly or in pairs on the ends of branchlets. Description ''Bossiaea aquifolium'' is a slender shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to and has thin, sometimes hairy branchlets. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and are holly-like, egg-shaped to more or less round, either with wavy edges and nine or more sharp points on the edges or more than fifteen teeth with only a single sharp point on the tip. The leaves are long and wide on a petiole long with broadly triangular stipules at the base that are shorter than the petiole. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets with egg-shaped bracts on the peduncle. The five sepals are joined ...
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