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Leptosema bossiaeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory. It is a straggling, low-growing or prostrate shrub with flat, winged stems and branches, leaves reduced to narrowly elliptic scales, pale yellowish-green flowers, and oval, beaked pods.
This species of Leptosema grows in shallow sand over sandstine in laterite in low woodland in the Arnhem Coast, Arnhem Plateau, Central Arnhem, Darwin Coastal, Gulf Coastal, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Northern Kimberley, Pine Creek bioregions of the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema bossiaeoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
