Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea aristata
Common name
Prickly Bush-pea, Bearded bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, in moist places. Illawarra Highway to south of Sydney Harbour.
Notes
Shrub to 0.4 m tall, sometimes rooting at the nodes. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves with sharp tips, alternating up the stems, 0.8-2.2 cm long, 1-2.2 mm wide, concave in cross section, margins rolled upwards, both surfaces the same colour, and strongly warty. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 10-13 mm long, yellow to orange, with red to red-brown markings, wings yellow to orange, keel red. Bracteoles linear to triangular, papery, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Flowers Spring. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
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.
NSW Threatened Species profile with photos: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10710 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~aristata (accessed 7 January 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): 87-88, Fig. 2 (map)
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