Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Pultenaea fasciculata

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Barrington Tops

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Richard Hartland, unknown place

Shrub. Photographer Nuytsia @ Tas, Tas

Common name

Bundled bush-pea, Alpine bush-pea

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Open forest, subalpine to alpine woodland, shrubland, heath, grassland and herb fields, often on the margins of swampy areas and near creeks. ACT and Snowy Mountains.

Notes

Prostrate shrub to 0.1 m tall. Stems hairy, eventually almost hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.25-1 cm long, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, linear to more or less cylindrical with a groove on the upper surface, tips pointed, with a stiff bristle or with a long, fragile mucro, surfaces densely warty, lower surface rough with a few pale hairs on young growth; upper surface obscured; margins tightly rolled upwards. Flowers 5-12 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange with red striations on the front, wings yellow to orange, keel yellow. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in clusters of 1-3, often leafy. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~fasciculata  (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): 240-241, Fig. 3