Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea retusa
Common name
Notched bush-pea, Blunt bush-pea, Mt Kaye bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems angled, hairy when young. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.1-2 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, flat to concave in cross section, margins flat to slightly curved down, upper surface hairless, darker than the lower surface, lower surface hairless except for the midrib being slightly hairy on young leaves, tips squared-off or blunt to notched. Flowers 4-7 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to orange with red markings, wings yellow to orange, keel red to purple. Bracteoles boat-shaped to linear, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods densely to sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~retusa (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2004) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 3. The eastern species with curved down leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 17(3): 310-313, Fig, 17 (map)
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