Pultenaea pedunculata

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Matted bush-pea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Pultenaea
Species:
P. pedunculata
Binomial name
Pultenaea pedunculata
Synonyms
  • Pultenaea ausfeldi Regel orth. var.
  • Pultenaea ausfeldiiRegel
  • Pultenaea ausfeldiiRegel isonym
  • Pultenaea diemenica Turcz.
  • Pultenaea pedunculata var. latifolia H.B.Will.
  • Pultenaea pedunculataHook. var. pedunculata
  • Pultenaea pedunculata var. pilosaH.B.Will.
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Pultenaea pedunculata, commonly known as matted bush-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a prostrate, densely matted shrub with softly-hairy branches that often form roots, narrow elliptic leaves, and bright yellow and brick-red flowers.

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Description

Pultenaea peduncluata is a prostrate, densely-matted shrub that forms carpets of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) or more in diameter, and has softy-hairy branches. The branches are up to several metres long but rarely more than 20 cm (7.9 in) off the ground, and often from roots to it. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow elliptic, 6–11 mm (0.24–0.43 in) long, 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide and sparsely hairy with stipules 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long at the base. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils near the ends of branches. They are 4–9 mm (0.16–0.35 in) long on a peduncle up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long with narrow lance-shaped bracteoles 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long attached near the base of the sepal tube. The sepals are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, the standard petal bright yellow, sometimes with a brick-red base, the wings yellow to orange and the keel red to purple, although the colour of the flowers is very variable. Flowering occurs in most months but mainly from September to December and the fruit is a spherical to egg-shaped pod 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Taxonomy

Pultenaea pedunculata was formally described in 1828 by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in the Botanical Magazine from specimens grown from seed collected by Charles Fraser. [7] [8] The specific epithet (pedunculata) means "pedunculate". [9]

Distribution and habitat

Matted bush-pea grows in forest, woodland, heathland and grassland from near Sydney in New South Wales through Victoria and south-eastern South Australia, to Tasmania where it is common and widespread in dry, rocky places. [2] [5] [6] [10]

Conservation status

This species of pea is relatively common in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania but is listed as "endangered" in New South Wales under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act . It is only known from three disjunct populations in that state. [11]

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<i>Pultenaea retusa</i> Species of legume

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Pultenaea subspicata, commonly known as low bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying, prostrate or mat-forming shrub with elliptic leaves and yellow to pink and orange-red, pea-like flowers.

References

  1. ↑ "Pultenaea pedunculata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pultenaea pedunculata". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Wood, Betty. "Pultenaea pedinculata". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Corrick, M.G. & Fuhrer, B.A. (2001). Wildflowers of Victoria and adjoining areas. Australia: Bloomings Books. ISBN   978-1876473143.
  5. 1 2 "Pultenaea pedunculata". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  6. 1 2 Corrick, Margaret G. "Pultenaea pedunculata". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Pultenaea pedunculata". APNI. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  8. ↑ Hooker, William J. (1828). "Pultenaea pedunculata". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 55: 2859. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  9. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 273. ISBN   9780958034180.
  10. ↑ Jordan, Greg. "Pultenaea pedunculata". University of Tasmania. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Matted Bush-pea - profile". New South Wales Government Office of Heritage and Environment. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
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