Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea blakelyi
Common name
Blakely's bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet and dry forest, woodland, and shrubland, often near streams. Coast and ranges. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3.5 m tall. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves with sharp tips, alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 1-2 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, flat to concave in cross section, margins flat to curved upwards, upper surface hairless, paler than the lower surface, lower surface with scattered appressed hairs. Flowers 7-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal and wings yellow to orange, keel yellow. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in leafy clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
Endangered Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~blakelyi (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2003) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 2. Eastern Australian species with velutinous ovaries and curved upwards leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 16(2): 235-236, Fig. 1
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