Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dillwynia palustris
Common name
A parrot-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
On the edge of teatree and sphagnum peaty swamps and Snow Gum woodland. Kosciuszko National Park northwards towards Brindabella.
Notes
Shrub to 0.5 m high, or sprawling, occasionally forming mats to 1.5 m in diameter. Bark minutely fissured. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.25–0.6 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, spirally twisted, rarely almost straight, linear, triangular to flattened in cross section, tips pointed or blunt, mucronate, shortly curved, surfaces hairless, occasionally with a few hairs towards the tips. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 8-9.5 mm wide, orange-yellow with red markings, wings orange-yellow, sometimes grading to red at the base, keel dark red, sometimes grading to green at the base. Flowers in clusters of 1-3, one to many clusters at the end of, and extending down the stems. Flowers Summer.
Description above partly taken from: Jobson, P.C. & Weston, P.H., (1999) Two new species of Dillwynia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Telopea. 8(3): 366, figs 2, 3 (map).
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dillwynia~palustris (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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