Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea dentata
Common name
Clustered bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Open forest, wet heath, and sphagnum swamps, often near streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall or sprawling to prostrate. Stems finely ribbed, hairy with pale, appressed hairs when young. Leaves alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, concave in cross section, tips blunt, margins curved to rolled upwards, upper surface hairless, paler than the lower surface, lower surface hairless or becoming hairless, and occasionally slightly wrinkled or rough. Flowers 4-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange with red striations, wings yellow to orange, keel yellow to red. Bracteoles with 3 teeth at the tips, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~dentata (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): 238-239, Fig. 2
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