It is an erect shrub with flattened cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to red flowers.

Bossiaea bombayensis is an erect shrub that typically grows up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high with flattened cladodes 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) wide, and that forms rhizomes.

Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a narrow oblong pod 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) long.

[2][3][4][5][6] Bossiaea bombayensis was first formally described in 2009 by Keith Leonard McDougall in the journal Telopea from specimens collected near the Shoalhaven River near Bombay.

[4] This bossiaeae is listed as critically endangered under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.