Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pultenaea baeuerlenii

Common name

Budawangs bush-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Swamp heath and bogs, often in gullies. Ranges Budawang National Park and Morton National Park south of Braidwood Road, and nearby.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Stems hairy. Leaves with sharp points. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7-1.5 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, cylindrical with a groove on the upper surface, surfaces warty. Flowers about 10 mm long, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 9.7-11 mm long, yellow to orange, sometimes with red markings, wings yellow to orange, keel yellow. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters, sometimes leafy. Flowers Spring to Autumn. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile with photos:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10711 (accessed 7 January 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~baeuerlenii  (accessed 7 January 2021)

Description partly taken from:  Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2003) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 2. Eastern Australian species with velutinous ovaries and curved upwards leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 16(2): 234-235, Fig. 1