Bossiaea halophila
Bossiaea halophila is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a dense, erect, many-branched shrub with narrow-winged cladodes, leaves reduced to small scales, and yellow-orange and deep red flowers. Description. "Bossiaea halophila" is a dense, erect, many-branched shrub that typically grows up to high and wide with more or less glabrous foliage. The branches are sometimes flattened with winged cladodes, the narrowest wide. The leaves are reduced to scales about long. The flowers are usually arranged singly, each flower on a pedicel up to  long with several, broadly egg-shaped bracts up to long. The five sepals are joined at the base forming a tube long, the two upper lobes long and the three lower lobes long, with a broadly egg-shaped bracteole up to long on the pedicel. The standard petal is deep yellow or orange yellow and long, the wings about the same length as the standard, and the keel is deep red and long. Flowering occurs in October and the fruit is an oblong pod long. Taxonomy and naming. "Bossiaea halophila" was first formally described in 1998 by James Henderson Ross  in the journal "Muelleria" from specimens collected the start of the causeway on the western side of Lake King in 1996. The specific epithet ("halophila") means "salt-loving", referring to the preferred habitat of this species. Distribution and habitat. This bossiaea grows in deep sand around the edge of salt lakes, often with mallee eucalypts and sometimes with "Bossiaea cucullata". It occurs from near Pingaring to Hyden and Pingrup with an outlier near Lake King, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia. Conservation status. "Bossiaea halophila" is classified as "not threatened" by the Government  of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.