Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea altissima
Common name
Tall bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, swampy areas, and along streams. Ranges and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or small tree to 3 m tall. Stems angled, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.5 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, concave in cross section, surfaces hairless, lower surface darker than upper surface, tips blunt, margins flat to curved upwards. Flowers 5-9 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow to orange usually with red markings, wings yellow to orange, keel yellow to red. Bracteoles round, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Pods hairless. Flowers Winter to Summer.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~altissima (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: 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): 86-87, Fig. 2 (map)
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