Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea scabra
Common name
Rough bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath, often in damp places. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Leaves with sharp tips. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.6 cm long, 2-13 mm wide, often dilated and bilobed at the tips, tips squared off, rounded with a small notch to broad-notched, and curved down, margins strongly curved to rolled down, upper surface rough, usually with scattered, wart-based hairs; lower surface hairy, paler than the upper surface; midrib raised and densely hairy. Flowers 7-12 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 linear, inserted on or at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers usually in dense clusters, often leafy. Flowers Winter to Summer. Pods densely to sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~scabra (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): 314-316, Fig. 18 (map)
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