Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea parrisiae
Common name
Parris' bush-pea, Bantam bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland, wet heath, and swamp margins. Western edge of Wadbilliga National Park east of Cooma, and south east of Bombala.
Notes
Low shrub, sprawling to prostrate, branches to 0.6m long. Leaves with sharp points. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.4-1.7 cm long, 0.8-3 mm wide, tips pointed and curved down, margins mostly curved down, upper surface concave with a row of hairs along the midrib, or hairless, darker than the lower surface, lower surface initially silky, becoming becoming hairless. Flowers 5-7 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to purple with red markings, wings yellow to purple, keel red to purple. The bracts around the flower clusters persistent, papery, brown, tips divided into three, with a central awn-like lobe. Bracteoles linear to triangular, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters of 4-7 flowers. Flowers Spring. Pods densely to 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.
Vulnerable Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile with photos: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10714 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~parrisiae (accessed 7 January 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): 304-305, Fig. 13 (map)
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