Family: Fabaceae
Pultenaea stricta
Citation:
Sims, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 38:t. 1588 (1813).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Rigid bush-pea.
Description:
A small shrub, erect to 1 m high or decumbent, branches ribbed and pubescent when young; leaves pedicellate, ovate to oblong or broadly oblong, 5-10 x 2-5 mm, tips obtuse with a short recurved mucro, almost flat, midrib prominent on the lower surface, with slightly thickened margins, glabrous or sometimes more or less pubescent beneath only; stipules broad-lanceolate, c. 1 mm long, brown, leathery.
Flowers subsessile, 8-10 mm long, clustered in heads at the tips of the branches, surrounded by bracts; bracts scarious, brown, the outer truncate, 2-3 mm long, bilobed and sometimes with a short point between the lobes, ciliate, sometimes the midrib and base hairy, inner narrowly ovate, to 4 mm long, all usually fallen by anthesis; bracteoles attached on the upper half of the calyx tube, lanceolate-obovate, c. 3 mm long and reaching almost to the summit of the teeth, concave, brown, scarious, persistent; calyx c. 5 mm long, villous with long silky hairs, teeth triangular, shorter than the tube, the upper 2 broader; standard suborbicular, as wide as long, yellow streaked red, not suddenly contracted into a claw; wings obovate, yellow, auriculate above the slender claw; keel obovate-oblong, equalling the wings in length, crimson distally; ovary villous; style slightly thickened towards the base.
Pod ovate-acute, c. 6 mm long, flattened, brown, strigose, 2-seeded; seed cordate, c. 2 mm long, dark-brown, dull.
| Pultenaea stricta twig, sessile flower, leaf, legume and seed.
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Image source: fig 368a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Corrick (1977) Victorian Nat. 94:27, fig. 4.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SE. Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — 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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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