Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 55:139 (1931).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Stalked bush-pea.

Description:
Low slender semiprostrate shrub, 20-30 cm high; stems branching from the base, tending to be wiry; young branches white-pubescent with appressed hairs; leaves distant, linear-lanceolate, 6-14 x 1-2 mm, upper surface concave by involute margins, glabrous, sometimes pubescent below with white appressed hairs, tapering into a short wrinkled petiole; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, 1-2 mm long, light-brown, scarious, with ciliate margins.

Flowers 6-8 mm long, mostly solitary, axillary, on erect antrorsely pubescent peduncles 2-7 mm long; bracts absent; bracteoles inserted just below the calyx tube, linear-subulate, c. 5 mm long, green, leaf-like, nearly as long as the calyx, mostly pubescent, 2-stipellate; stipels triangular, scarious, sometimes reduced to hyaline margins; calyx 4-5 mm long, straw-coloured, sparsely pubescent, almost 2-lipped when young, upper 2 lobes triangular-falcate, lower lanceolate, about as long as the calyx tube; standard greatly exceeding the calyx, orange-yellow with a red centre; wings shorter, yellow, slightly exceeding the crimson-tipped keel.

Pod slightly surpassing the calyx, flattened laterally, brown, pubescent; seed narrow-cordate, c. 2 mm long, dark-brown, dull.

	Pultenaea quadricolor twig, flower and legume.
Image source: fig 366b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — mainly in Jan.; fruits: Jan. — May.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Shows similarities with P. laxiflora which has the flowers mostly in terminal clusters and subtended by brown ovate scarious bracts.

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