Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea largiflorens
Common name
Twiggy bush pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Westrern Slopes. Dry forest, woodland, and mallee.
Notes
Rigid shrub to 1.3 m high. Leaf tips sometimes sharp. Stems cylindrical, appressed-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3–1 cm long, 0.5-4 mm wide, concave in cross section to folded lengthwise, tips blunt and curved down, margins curved to rolled upwards, upper surface usually hairless, paler than the lower surface; lower surface with pale, appressed hairs, occasionally slightly rough. Flowers 6–10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow to orange, wings yellow to orange, keel red to purple. Bracteoles mostly hairy, boat-shaped to linear, or 3-toothed at the tips, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in 1–8-flowered, often head-like, clusters. Flowers July-December. Pods hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~largiflorens (accessed 3 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2004) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 3. The eastern species with curved down leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 17(3): 294-295, Fig. 9 (map)
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