Bossiaea saxosa

Bossiaea saxosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Norseman, Western Australia. It is an erect, intricately branched shrub with many slightly flattened, sharply pointed cladodes and deep yellow, red and lemon-yellow, pea-like flowers.

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Bossiaea saxosa is an erect, intricately branched shrub that typically grows up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and wide with hairy young growth. The branches are slightly flattened, ending in sharply pointed cladodes 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide. The leaves, when present, are reduced to dark, reddish-brown scales 0.7–1 mm (0.028–0.039 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly at nodes along the cladodes, each flower on a hairy pedicel up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long with egg-shaped bracts up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long at the base and egg-shaped bracteoles 0.8–1.3 mm (0.031–0.051 in) long on the pedicels. The five sepals are hairy and joined at the base, forming a tube 1.6–3.5 mm (0.063–0.138 in) long, the two upper lobes 1.6–3.0 mm (0.063–0.118 in) long and the lower lobes 1.2–2.0 mm (0.047–0.079 in) long. The standard petal is deep yellow with a red base and 7.2–9.6 mm (0.28–0.38 in) long, the wings deep yellow and 6.6–8.2 mm (0.26–0.32 in) long, and the keel lemon-yellow and 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) long. Flowering occurs from September to early October and the fruit is an oblong pod 13–21 mm (0.51–0.83 in) long.