Bossiaea buxifolia

Matted Bossiaea at Paddys River, ACT

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Identification history

	Bossiaea buxifolia	24 Oct 2016	BettyDonWood
	Bossiaea buxifolia	23 Oct 2016	galah681

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2 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

24 Oct 2016

Could you do a closeup of the join between a leaf and its stem please. i get the impression that there is ajoint rather than a smooth continuation. In that case it is Bossiaea prostrata. With material that is probably not sourced from ACT seed, the colour of the back of standard (hat) petal is not a reliable character for telling them apart.

galah681 wrote:

24 Oct 2016

I have added a closeup of the leaves and stem. As the plant was growing at the head of the Tidbinbilla valley I would expect that the seed was local to that area.

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Sighting information

2 Abundance
15 Oct 2016 02:06 PM Recorded on
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galah681 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Peas Plants

Additional information

True In flower
Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

Bossiaea buxifolia Scientific name
Matted Bossiaea Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1311.38m Recorded at altitude
356 images trained Machine learning
In flower

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Australian Capital Territory

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