Flowers on stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Pod. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowering shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Young shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Common Name

Cactus Pea, Cactus Bossiaea

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall.  Leaves usually reduced to small scales, appearing leafless.  Leaves if developed alternating up the stems, 1.5-2cm long, broad to round, flat, glaucous.  Flowers red, pea-like, with 5 petals, 2 almost joined together.  Flowers usually single, with stalks arising from notches in the plant stems. Endangered Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 385

eFlora of South Australia description:   http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Bossiaea_walkeri