It is a straggling shrub with wiry branches, egg-shaped to more or less heart-shaped leaves and yellow and red flowers.

Bossiaea cordigera is an erect or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall and has wiry branches.

Flowering occurs from October to January and the fruit is a narrow oblong pod 15–28 mm (0.59–1.10 in) long.

[2][3][4] Bossiaea cordigera was first formally described in 1856 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M.

[7] Wiry bossiaea grows in open forest, often in moist places and occurs between Portland and Healesville in southern Victoria and in the north and east of Tasmania..[2][3][8]