Family: Fabaceae
Pultenaea dentata
Citation:
Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:103 (1805).
Synonymy: S.Aust.: SL, SE.
Common name: Clustered bush-pea.
Description:
Slender often procurebent shrub; stems wiry, 20-80 cm long, smaller branches often angular; leaves stiff, rarely some opposite, elliptic to narrow-oblanceolate, 5-10 x c. l mm, margins strongly incurved, usually glabrous, lower surface usually darker, often scabrid or occasionally glaucous; stipules lanceolate, 0.5-1 mm, leathery, red-brown.
Flowers c. 6 (rarely to 9) mm long, sessile, densely clustered at the tips of the branches, encircled by the uppermost leaves, subtended by closely imbricate bracts; bracts ovate, 2-4 mm long, dentate, often trilobed, ciliate, brown; bracteoles similar, attached near the base of the calyx, oblong to obovate, trilobed, dentate, c. 2 mm long, exceeding the tube, the central lobe hairy; calyx 3-5 mm long, usually with long silky hairs distally; teeth acute or acuminate, minutely pungent, upper 2 broader and partly united basally; slightly longer than the tube; standard broad-ovate, notched, slightly longer than wide, bright-yellow with red stripes; wings oblong, yellow, on slender claws; keel ovate-oblong, yellow basally, purple distally, with an obtuse tip; ovary and the base of the style villous.
Pod ovate-acute, 4-5 mm long, dark-leaden-coloured, 2-seeded; seed cordiform, c. 1.5 mm long, brown, smooth.
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Image source: fig 363a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cotrick (1977) Victorian Nat. 94:199, fig. 8.
Distribution:
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Usually found in swamps, wet heathland or banks of streams.
S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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