Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea subspicata
Common name
Low bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet to dry forest, woodland, heath, and disturbed sites, usually in stony areas. Widespread. Rarely coastal.
Notes
Shrub, prostrate or to 0.6 m tall. Stems hairy to sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.2-1 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, concave in cross section, tips blunt, margins curved to rolled upwards, upper surface hairless, paler than the lower surface or both surfaces the same colour; lower surface covered in minute warts, with scattered, pale hairs. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 7.6-9.5 mm long, yellow to pink to orange-red, sometimes with red to red-brown markings. Wings yellow or pink to orange-red. Keel orange to red-brown. Bracteoles with 3 teeth at the tips, papery, inserted at the base of 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.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~subspicata (accessed 4 April 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): 108-109
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