Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea tuberculata
Common name
Wreath bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands, north from west of Milton. Rare elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m tall. Stems sparsely to moderately hairy, the hairs obscured by stipules that lie close to the stems. Leaves occasionally with sharp points, alternating up the stems, 0.3-2.5 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat to concave in cross section, tips pointed to blunt, rarely with a stiff bristle, margins curved upwards, lower surface darker than upper surface. Flowers 10-16 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, standard petal yellow to red, sometimes with red markings, wings yellow-red, keel yellow-red. Flowers in leafy clusters. Bracteoles silky, boat-shaped or with three teeth at the tips, with beige hairy margins, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers most of the year. Pods with a tuft of hairs at the tips.
Was Pultenaea sp. H and Pultenaea sp. aff. elliptica.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~tuberculata (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): 109-110, Fig. 11 (map)
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