Feather bush-pea | |
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In the Beyeria Conservation Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Pultenaea |
Species: | P. penna |
Binomial name | |
Pultenaea penna | |
Pultenaea penna, commonly known as feather bush-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rigid, spreading shrub with linear, needle-shaped leaves and yellow and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea penna is a rigid, spreading shrub with glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, linear and needle-shaped, 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long with stipules 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base, and with the edges rolled inwards. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in tight cluster of four or five near the ends of branchlets. The sepals are hairy and 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in) long with densely hairy lobes. There are leaf-like, densely hairy bracteoles 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long at the base of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow with red markings and 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from November to December and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod. [2]
Pultenaea penna was first formally described in 2003 by Rogier Petrus Johannes de Kok in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected 20 km (12 mi) south-west of Kingscote in 1999. [3] The specific epithet (penna) is a Latin word for "feather", "wing" or "pen". [4]
Feather bush-pea grows in heathy woodland in the Little Desert National Park in Victoria and in the south-east of South Australia. [2]
This species of peas is listed as "vulnerable" in Victoria, under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 . [2]
Pultenaea scabra, commonly known as rough bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with hairy stems, heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea daphnoides, commonly known as large-leaf bush-pea or large-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with a pointed tip, and dense clusters of bright yellow and red flowers.
Pultenaea muelleri, commonly known as Mueller's bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a dense shrub with hairy stems, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red flowers arranged singly or in pairs on the ends of short side shoots.
Pultenaea juniperina, commonly known as prickly bush-pea or prickly beauty is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect, spiky shrub with hairy stems, linear to narrow elliptic leaves with stipules at the base, and yellow-orange and red flowers.
Pultenaea pedunculata, commonly known as matted bush-pea, 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.
Pultenaea mollis, commonly known as soft bush-pea or guinea flower bush pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with narrow linear to elliptic or needle-shaped leaves and clusters of up to ten yellow to orange flowers with red markings.
Pultenaea acerosa, commonly known as bristly bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rigid, much-branched shrub with glabrous, grooved, needle-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with red veins.
Pultenaea canaliculata, commonly known as coast bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of southern continental Australia. It is an rigid, spreading shrub with hairy, cylindrical leaves, and yellow and crimson flowers.
Pultenaea capitellata, commonly known as hard-head bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a sprawling to prostrate shrub with elliptic to broadly egg-shaped leaves, and yellow to orange flowers with a red to purple keel.
Pultenaea foliolosa, commonly known as the small-leaf bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with elliptic to oblong leaves that are concave on the upper surface, and yellow to orange and reddish-brown flowers.
Pultenaea graveolens, commonly known as scented bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a strongly scented shrub with hairy stems, egg-shaped leaves with boat-shaped stipules at the base, and flowers that are mostly yellow.
Pultenaea largiflorens, commonly known as twiggy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rigid, erect shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and bright yellow and crimson flowers.
Pultenaea laxiflora, commonly known as loose-flower 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 to prostrate, spreading shrub with linear to narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red to brown or purple flowers.
Pultenaea platyphylla, commonly known as flat-leaf bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, rigidly-branched shrub with narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Pultenaea polifolia, commonly known as dusky bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with linear or elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Pultenaea prolifera, commonly known as Otway bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Victoria. It is an erect shrub with needle-shaped leaves, and yellow and red pea-like flowers arranged singly in leaf axils on the ends of short side branches.
Pultenaea prostrata, commonly known as silky bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, rigid, wiry, low-lying or prostrate shrub with cylindrical leaves, and yellow, red and purple-brown flowers.
Pultenaea retusa, commonly known as notched bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with wedge-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Pultenaea subalpina, commonly known as rosy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria. It is a rigid, prostrate to erect or spreading shrub with linear leaves and pink, pea-like flowers.
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.