Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 33:224 (1909).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Kangaroo Island bush-pea.

Description:
Small prostrate shrub, branches white- and rusty-tomentose; leaves subsessile, crowded, ovate or obovate, 4-5 mm long, concave by the involute margins, and sparsely pubescent above, densely pubescent or villous below, recurved in the upper part, tip with a bristle-like mucro to 0.5 mm long; stipules lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 1-2 mm long, brown, leathery.

Flowers c. 7 mm long, subsessile, 1 or 2 or a few, crowded terminally on proliferous short branches, or axillary; bracts several, orbicular to ovate, 2-lobed, 2-keeled, with scarious margins, ciliate, often pubescent on the back; bracteoles inserted just below the calyx tube, trifid, c. 4.5 mm long, not stipulate, central lobe usually leaf-like, lanceolate-subulate, longer than the 2 lateral brown leathery pubescent subulate lobes; calyx c. 4 mm long, pubescent, teeth subulate, upper 2 broader and united higher up, lower 3 lanceolate, longer than the standard, nearly twice as long as the calyx, yellow; wings shorter, yellow; keel equalling the wings, crimson; ovary shortly stipitate, villous.

Pod hardly exceeding the calyx, obovate, turgid, brown, rusty-pubescent.

	Pultenaea trifida twig, leaf calyx, and legume.
Image source: fig 370a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.

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

Biology: No text

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