Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea procumbens
Common name
Heathy bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, and grassy areas, often on stony soils. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, Western Slopes, and tablelands. Occasionally in the ranges.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate or to 0.7 m tall. Stems hairy to slightly glaucous. Leaves with sharp tips. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.2-1 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, strongly concave in cross section, tips with a stiff bristle or tapered to a long, sharp point, margins curved to rolled upwards, both surfaces the same colour or the lower surface darker than upper surface, surfaces sparsely hairy with the hairs denser at the margins (broad-leafed forms usually with raised veins on the lower surface). Flowers 7-10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to red, sometimes with red to red-brown stripes at the front, wings orange to red, keel red. Bracteoles with 3 teeth at the tips, papery, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in leafy clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~procumbens (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: 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): 99-101, Fig. 7 (map)
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