Bossiaea flexuosa
Bossiaea flexuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a compact shrub with slightly flattened, zigzag branches, notched, more or less leafless cladodes, and golden yellow and red or pinkish flowers. Description. "Bossiaea flexuosa" is a compact shrub that typically grows up to high and wide with zigzag branches that are slightly flattened to oval in cross-section, and notched cladodes wide. The leaves are reduced to broadly egg-shaped scales long and wide, reddish at first then turning black. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs  or threes, each flower on a pedicel long with overlapping, egg-shaped bracts up to long. The sepals are joined at the base forming a tube long, with five lobes, the two upper lobes long and the three lower lobes long, with egg-shaped bracteoles long on the pedicel. The standard petal is golden yellow with a pinkish-red base and long, the wings long and the keel is deep purplish-red with a greenish-yellow base and long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is an oblong pod long. Taxonomy and naming. "Bossiaea flexuosa" was first  formally described in 2006 by James Henderson Ross in the journal "Muelleria" from specimens collected south-west of Salmon Gums in 1998. The specific epithet ("flexuosa") means "zigzag", referring to the shape of the young stems. Distribution and habitat. This bossiaea grows in deep sand in kwongan, open mallee or woodland mostly between Norseman, Hyden and Salmon Gums in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Bossiaea flexuosa" is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only  a few locations but is not under imminent threat.