Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea echinula
Common name
Curved Bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, often on rocky hillsides. Ranges and the eastern part of the tablelands, north from the Blue Mountains.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall or prostrate. Stems hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.9-1.5 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, cylindrical in cross section with a groove on the upper surface, tips with a stiff bristle, both surfaces the same colour, and warty. Flowers to 10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 8-8.8 mm long, yellow to orange with red-brown stripes on the front, wings yellow to orange, keel red. Bracteoles linear to triangular, papery, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in dense leafy clusters. Flowers September to November. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~echinula (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description above partly based on Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2002) A revision of Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 1. Species with ovaries hairless and/or with tufted hairs. Australian Systematic Botany 15(1): 90, Fig. 3 (map)
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