Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cullen parvum

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Small Scurf-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassland, grazed sites, and moist areas. Western Slopes. Occasionally on the tablelands.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m high or sprawling. Stems hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–12 cm long, compound, with 3 leaflets, sometimes with 5–7 leaflets, each leaflet 0.5–4 cm long, 2–22 mm wide, both surfaces usually sparsely hairy, upper surface dotted with glands, tips pointed or blunt, margins entire. Flowers blue, purple pink, bluish pink, lilac, or white, 4–6 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Calyx 4–6.5 mm long. Flowers usually in 3s along the rachis of the inflorescence. Rachis 5-40 mm long. Flowers Spring to Autumn.

Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10190 (accessed 4 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cullen~parvum (accessed 4 January, 2021)