About Bossiaea foliosa A.Cunn.
Bossiaea foliosa A.Cunn., commonly known as leafy bossiaea, is an erect shrub that typically grows up to around 1.5 meters (4 feet 11 inches) tall, and has hairy branches. Its leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, and are broadly egg-shaped to more or less round. Each leaf measures 1.5 to 3 millimeters (0.059 to 0.118 inches) long and 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters (0.059 to 0.138 inches) wide, with more or less persistent triangular stipules 0.4 to 1 millimeter (0.016 to 0.039 inches) long at the leaf base.
The flowers of this species are 5 to 7 millimeters (0.20 to 0.28 inches) long, and are arranged singly in leaf axils. Each flower grows on a pedicel up to 2 millimeters (0.079 inches) long, with a few crowded bracts around 0.5 millimeters (0.020 inches) long. The sepals are 2.0 to 3.5 millimeters (0.079 to 0.138 inches) long, with narrow elliptic bracteoles 0.5 to 1.0 millimeters (0.020 to 0.039 inches) long attached at the base of the sepal tube. All petals are uniformly bright yellow, and the petals are more or less equal in length.
Flowering takes place from October to December. The fruit is a more or less round pod that is 5 to 8 millimeters (0.20 to 0.31 inches) long. This species grows in open forest and woodland, and sometimes occurs in Sphagnum bogs. It inhabits high altitude areas, ranging south from near Orange in New South Wales, through the Australian Capital Territory, to the ranges in eastern and north-eastern Victoria.
