Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Almaleea paludosa
Common name
Marsh bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Freshwater swamps below 800m altitude. Coast and ranges north from just south of Jervis Bay.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m tall or sprawling. Stems densely hairy when young, becoming moderately hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6-0.8 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, tips pointed; both surfaces hairless, lower surface with a dark purplish-brown central band, margins flat, rough, warty, with some short hairs when immature. Flowers pea-shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, with orange-yellow petals with red markings, calyx 3-4 mm long, grey hairy, standard petal about 6 mm long. Bracteoles immediately below the flowers linear, about 2 mm long, densely hairy. Bracts below the flowers 1.5–3 mm long. Flowers in a dense head of about 6–12 flowers. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Almaleea~paludosa (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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