Pultenaea procumbens

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Heathy 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. procumbens
Binomial name
Pultenaea procumbens
Synonyms [1]
List
    • Pultenaea epacridea F.Muell nom. inval., nom. nud.
    • Pultenaea epacrideaF.Muell. ex Hook.f.
    • Pultenaea epacrideaF.Muell. nom. inval., nom. nud.
    • Pultenaea setigeraA.Cunn. ex Benth.
    • Pultenaea staphyleoidesA.Cunn. ex G.Don
    • Pultenaea staphyleoides var. muticaF.Muell. ex H.B.Will.
    • Pultenaea staphyleoides var. muticaF.Muell. ex Ewart nom. illeg.
    • Pultenaea staphyleoidesA.Cunn. ex G.Don var. staphyleoides
    • Pultenaea staphylioides Joy Thomps. orth. var.
    • Pultenaea stypheleoides A.D.Chapm. orth. var.
    • Pultenaea stypheliodesJoy Thomps. orth. var.
    • Pultenaea styphelioides Steud. orth. var.
    • Pultenaea styphelioides var. muticaH.B.Will. orth. var.

Pultenaea procumbens, commonly known as heathy bush-pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a low-lying or spreading shrub with lance-shaped or rhombic leaves and yellow, orange and red flowers.

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Description

Pultenaea procumbens is a low-lying or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and has hairy young stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped or rhombic, 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long, 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) wide with tapering, lance-shaped stipules 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long at the base. The edges of the leaves curve strongly downwards and there is a sharp point on the tip. The flowers are arranged in dense, leafy clusters of more than three on the ends of branches and are 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–2.0 mm (0.059–0.079 in) long. The sepals are 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long, joined at the base, and there are lance-shaped bracteoles 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long attached to the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to red and 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) wide, the wings are yellow to orange and the keel is red. Flowering mainly occurs from October to November and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Pultenaea procumbens was first formally described in 1825 by Allan Cunningham in Barron Field's Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales. [5] [6] The specific epithet (procumbens) means "procumbent". [7]

Distribution and habitat

Heathy bush-pea grows in forest and heath and is found in New South Wales south from the Nandewar Range through the tablelands and South West Slopes of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to northern and eastern Victoria where it occurs in scattered locations, often on rocky hillsides. [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pultenaea procumbens". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Corrick, Margaret G. "Pultenaea procumbens". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Pultenaea procumbens". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  4. 1 2 Wood, Betty. "Pultenaea procumbens". Lucid Keys. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Pultenaea procumbens". APNI. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  6. ↑ Cunningham, Allan (1825). Barron Field (ed.). Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales. London: John Murray. p. 347. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  7. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 283. ISBN   9780958034180.
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