Bossiaea barbarae
Bossiaea barbarae is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, compact, spiny shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves, and deep yellow and bright red flowers. Description. "Bossiaea barbarae" is an erect, compact, glaucous, spiny shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, the short side-branches ending in a sharp, reddish-brown point. The leaves are oblong to elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long with a stipule long at the  base. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long with bracts, the largest bract long. The sepals are glabrous, joined at the base forming a tube long, the two upper lobes long and the lower three lobes slightly shorter. The standard petal is deep yellow with a bright red base and long, the wings long and the keel long and red. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a pod long. Taxonomy and naming. "Bossiaea barbarae" was first formally described in 2006 by James Henderson Ross in the  journal "Muelleria" from specimens collected near Salmon Gums in 1998. The specific epithet ("barbarae") honours "Barbara Archer of Norseman", the collector of the type specimens. Distribution and habitat. This bossiaea usually grows near the edges of salt lakes in the Coolgardie, Esperance plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Bossiaea barbarae" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.