Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea benthamii
Common name
Bentham's bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath, often on along streams or in rocky areas. Coast, ranges, and tablelands south from the northern end of South East Forests National Park north west of Bega.
Notes
Shrub to 3.5 m tall. Stems slightly ridged, hairy when young. Leaves alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 0.4-3 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, tips pointed, margins curved down, upper surface hairless, darker than the lower surface; lower surface usually hairy. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 11-13 mm long, yellow to orange, wings yellow to orange, keel red to purple. Bracteoles boat-shaped to linear, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers Spring. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~benthamii (accessed 25 January, 2021)
Description mostly 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 Botan y 17(3): 276-277, Fig. 1 (map)
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