Bossiaea cucullata
Bossiaea cucullata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a dense, many-branched shrub with narrow-winged cladodes, leaves reduced to dark brown scales, and yellow and deep red or pale greenish-yellow flowers. Description Bossiaea cucullata is a rigid, dense, many-branched shrub that typically grows up to high and wide with greyish-green, more or less glabrous foliage. The branches are sometimes flattened with slightly winged cladodes wide. The leaves are reduced to dark brown, egg-shaped scales long. The flowers are usually arranged singly, each flower on a pedicel up to long with overlapping, broadly egg-shaped bracts up to long. The 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 long on the pedicel. The standard petal is usually deep yellow to orange-yellow and long, the wings about the same length as the standard, the keel deep red, maroon or greenish-yellow and long. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is an oblong pod long. Taxonomy and naming Bossiaea cucullata was first formally described in 1998 by James Henderson Ross in the journal