Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea vrolandii
Common name
Cupped bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Tablelands between Tallaganda National Park and the Hume Highway. Rarely north of the Highway. Western Slopes east and north east of Albury. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems hairy to sparsely hairy. Leaves with sharp tips, 0.3-1.2 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, tips pointed, margins curved upwards, upper surface hairless, slightly paler than or the same colour as the lower surface, midrib raised; lower surface with sparse, pale hairs, denser near the margins. Flowers about 10 mm long, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal yellow to orange with red striations. Wings yellow to red-purplish-brown. Keel red-purple. Bracteoles round, sticky, inserted at the base of the calyx tube. Flowers in leafy clusters. Flowers Spring to Summer. Pods sparsely hairy, smooth.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~vrolandii (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2003) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 2. Eastern Australian species with velutinous ovaries and curved upwards leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 16(2): 269-270, Fig. 15
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