{{Short description|Species of legume}} {{Speciesbox |status= |status_system= |status_ref= |image = Bossiaea carinalis.jpg |image_caption = On the Blackdown Tableland |genus = Bossiaea |species = carinalis |authority = Benth.<ref name=APC>{{cite web|title=''Bossiaea carinalis''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/62241|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=13 July 2021}}</ref> |range_map= |range_map_caption = |synonyms= |synonyms_ref= }} '''''Bossiaea carinalis''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and pink to red and yellow flowers.
==Description== ''Bossiaea carinalis'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|3|m}} and has hairy branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow egg-shaped to lance-shaped, mostly {{cvt|5–25|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–13|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.5–1.0|mm}} long with narrow triangular stipules {{cvt|2–3|mm}} long at the base. The flowers are borne on a pedicel {{cvt|3–7|mm}} long with a bract {{cvt|1.0–1.5|mm}} long and similarly sized bracteoles at the base. The sepals are {{cvt|5–9|mm}} long and joined at the base with the two upper lobes {{cvt|3.0–3.5|mm}} long and the lower lobes {{cvt|1.5–2.5|mm}} long. The standard petal is red with a yellow base and up to {{cvt|12|mm}} long, the wings yellow or red and slightly longer than the standard, and the keel pink to red and {{cvt|5–10|mm}} longer than the standard petal. Flowering occurs in most months but mainly from late winter to early spring and the fruit is an oblong pod {{cvt|10–20|mm}} long.<ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=Ian R. |title=A revision of eastern Australian Bossiaea (Fabaceae: Bossiaeae) |journal=Muelleria |date=2012 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=153–154 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/279580#page/75/mode/1up |access-date=14 July 2021}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Bossiaea carinalis'' was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in Thomas Mitchell's ''Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Bossiaea carinalis''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/467873|publisher=APNI|accessdate=13 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Mitchell">{{cite book|last1=Mitchell|first1=Thomas Livingstone|title=Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia|date=1848|location=Sydney|page=289|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9943/9943-h/9943-h.htm|accessdate=13 July 2021}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== This bossiaea grows in woodland and forest between Bundaberg and Townsville in eastern Queensland.<ref name="Muelleria" />
==Conservation status== ''Bossiaea carinalis'' is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''Nature Conservation Act 1992''.<ref name="DES">{{cite web |title=Species profile—''Bossiaea carinalis'' |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=15628 |publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |access-date=14 July 2021}}</ref>
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carinalis Category:Flora of Queensland Category:Plants described in 1848 Category:Taxa named by George Bentham