Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea divaricata
Common name
A bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet heath and swamps. Coast, ranges, and eastern tablelands, north from west of Milton.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves with sharp tips, alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.4 cm long, less than 1 mm wide, cylindrical in cross section with a groove on the upper surface, tips pointed, surfaces densely warty, both surfaces the same colour. Flowers 5-10 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 yellow. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Flowers Spring to Autumn. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~divaricata (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): 239-240, Fig. 3
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