Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea daphnoides
Common name
Large-leaf bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, along streams, and swamps. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m tall. Bark grey to brown, smooth to finely roughened. Stems ridged or angled, hairy when young. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.38-4 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, often concave in cross section, tips rounded to squared off or rarely rounded with a small notch, midrib continued into a conspicuous mucro or bristle at the tip, margins flat to slightly curved down, upper surface hairless, darker than the lower surface; lower surface hairless or with sparse, pale hairs. Flowers 7-15 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow to orange, often with red markings, wings yellow to orange, keel red to purple. Bracteoles linear, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense head-like clusters of about 6–15 flowers. Flowers from late Autumn to Summer. Pods densely to sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~daphnoides (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly 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 Botany 17(3): 284-286, Fig. 6 (map)
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