Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 2:138 (1864).

Synonymy: Pultenaea fuscata

Common name: Mount Lofty bush-pea.

Description:
Mostly compact shrubs; branches to 1 m high, loosely villous with spreading hairs; leaves rather crowded, distinctly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, rigid, acute with a short mucro, concave and glabrous above, with a distinct midrib on both faces, villous below and on margins and with 2 faint veins; stipules ovate, bilobed or separated to the base, 2-keeled, with scarious margins, often ciliate and pubescent on the back.

Flowers solitary, c. 8 mm long, at the end of very short leafy branchlets, usually at first crowded at the tip of the branch but later the branch growing into an elongated leafy inflorescence; each flower surrounded by numerous imbricate bracts, which gradually increase in size towards the calyx; the outer bracts lanceolate, c. 1.5 mm long, inner ovate, c. 2.5 mm long, concave, costate, brown, with hyaline margins; the 2 last being bracteoles, attached to the pedicel, ovate-truncate, c. 3 mm long, concave, as long as the calyx and tightly concealing it including the calyx teeth, glabrous except for ciliate margins; calyx c. 3 mm long, membranous, pink, glabrous except for the ciliate margins of the triangular teeth; standard ovate, c. 8 mm across, yellow, sometimes streaked red, suddenly contracted into the claw; wings oblong, yellow, shortly auriculate above the claw; keel oblong, obtuse, distally red, drying purple, a large auricle above the claw; ovary ovate, villous with the lower part of style.

Pod ovate, c. 4 mm long, turgid, exceeding the calyx, brown, villous, 2-seeded; seed cordate, c. 1.5 mm long, dark-brown, dull.

	Pultenaea involucrata twig, condensed inflorescence, flower,bracts, calyx with ovary.
Image source: fig 364b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug, — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: In habit and leaves similar to P. trinervis in which the flowers are enclosed by the stipules of the leaves and which lacks bracts so that the calyx

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