Bossiaea sericea
Bossiaea sericea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to higher areas of south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less round to heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers. Description. "Bossiaea sericea" is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has stems that are round in cross-section. The leaves are more or less round to hear-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide with triangular  stipules long and longer than the petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous but the lower surface is covered with fine white hairs. The flowers are long and arranged singly on a pedicel long with crowded broadly egg-shaped bracts up to long at the base and narrow egg-shaped or oblong bracteoles long near the base of the sepals. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes long and about wide, the lower lobes shorter and narrower. The petals are yellow, sometimes tinged with pink on  the edges, the standard petal up to about long, the wings wide, and the keel wide. Flowering occurs from December to January and the fruit is a broadly elliptic pod long and covered rusty hairs or a mixture of pale and rusty hairs. Taxonomy. "Bossiaea sericea" was first formally described in 2012 by Ian R. Thompson in the journal "Muelleria" from specimens collected by Robert Owen Makinson on 3 December 1991 near Omeo. The specific epithet ("sericea") is derived from the Latin, "sericeus" (silky) and refers to the silky undersurface of the leaves. Distribution and habitat. This bossiaea is found  in north-eastern and far eastern Victoria, far south-eastern New South Wales, and in the Australian Capital Territory, growing in alpine and subalpine areas at altitudes above , growing in heath and woodland (often bordered by grassland).