Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea lapidosa
Common name
Stony bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and rocky hillsides. Kosciuszko National Park, Western Slopes, and ACT. Tablelands north of Googong Reservoir east of the ACT. Blue Mountains. Occasional elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m tall or sprawling. Leaf tips sharp, fragile. Stems hairy to hairless. Older stems conspicuously scarred with stipule and leaf remains. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.6 cm long, 0.5-2 mm wide, tips pointed, with a long, fragile, curved mucro; upper surface hairless, paler than the lower surface, lower surface with sparse, long, wart-based hairs; margins curved upwards. Flowers 5-13 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange with red to red-brown markings, wings yellow to orange, keel dark red. Bracteoles with 3 teeth at the tips, inserted on or just below the calyx tube. Flowers in head-like clusters of 10–25 flowers. Flowers Nov.–Dec. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
Previously Pultenaea setulosa. This has now been determined to occur only in Queensland (accessed Australian Plant Names Index on 3 May 2021).
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/53ddf5e3-6ab2-4a72-b7d8-13a61af918a5 (accessed 3 May 2021)
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