Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea glabra
Common name
Smooth bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, wet heath, swamp margins, gullies, and along streams. Ranges north from the Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.7–2 cm long, 0.5–2.2 mm wide, concave in cross section, tips pointed and curved down, margins rolled upwards, both surfaces the same colour or the lower surface darker than upper surface. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 8-11.5 mm long, yellow to red with red-brown stripes on the front, wings yellow to red, keel yellow to orange. Bracteoles linear to triangular, papery, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods hairless, rarely with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
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: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10712 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~glabra (accessed 7 January 2021)
Description above partly based on: 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): 94-96, Fig. 5 (map)
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