Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea ferruginea
Common name
Large bronze bush-pea, Larger bronze bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet to dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges north of Tathra.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.5 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, tips blunt, margins curved upwards; both surfaces the same colour. Flowers 10-15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange, wings yellow to (reddish) orange, sometimes with orange to red-brown stripes at the front, keel yellow to orange. Bracteoles with 3 teeth at the tips, papery, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in leafy clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~ferruginea (accessed 3 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2002) A revision of Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 1. Species with ovaries hairless and/or with tufted hairs. Australian Systematic Botany 15(1): 91-92, Fig. 4 (map)
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