Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea humilis
Common name
Dwarf bush pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and swamps. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high to prostrate, rhizomatous. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy, old stems scarred with broken off stipules and leaf-bases. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4–1.6 cm long, 1–4.5 mm wide, leathery, tips pointed; upper surface hairless, paler than lower surface; lower surface hairy or hairless; margins curved upwards. Flowers 10–13 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to red with red-brown stripes, wings yellow to red, keel yellow to red brown. Bracteoles linear to triangular, rarely with 3 teeth at the tips, fringed, papery, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense to somewhat lax leafy clusters, usually at the ends of the branches. Flowers spring-summer. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20095 (accessed 7 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~humilis (accessed 7 January 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): 96-97, Fig. 5 (map)
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