Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea hispidula
Common name
A bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath, rarely in wet heath or swamps. Coast. Ranges and the eastern part of the tablelands north from Wingello State Forest near Wingello.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy, rough. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1 cm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, tips blunt and slightly curved down, margins curved to rolled upwards, upper surface with a few scattered hairs, paler than the lower surface; lower surface rough, usually hairy, sometimes both surfaces hairless and the same colour. Flowers 5-8 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange sometimes with red striations on front and back, wings yellow to red, keel greenish yellow to red. Bracteoles linear, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in 1- to few-flowered leafy clusters. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~hispidula (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): 242-244, Fig. 4
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