| Pultenaea robusta | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Pultenaea |
| Species: | P. robusta |
| Binomial name | |
| Pultenaea robusta | |
Pultenaea robusta is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches, linear leaves, and yellow to orange and red to purple, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea robusta is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1.0 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) and has branchlets covered with hairs pressed against the surface. The leaves are linear, 20–42 mm (0.79–1.65 in) long and 2.8–3.5 mm (0.11–0.14 in) wide with stipules 7–12.5 mm (0.28–0.49 in) long at the base and pressed against the stem. The flowers are arranged in dense clusters on the ends of branches with papery, scale-like, pale brown to yellow bracts at the base. The sepals are 6.5–8.0 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long with boat-shaped to linear bracteoles 4.5–6.2 mm (0.18–0.24 in) long at the base of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange and 8.5–16.5 mm (0.33–0.65 in) long, the standard yellow to orange and 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long the keel red to purple and 8–11 mm (0.31–0.43 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from April to July and the fruit is a pod about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. [2] [3]
This pea was first formally described in 1920 by Herbert Bennett Williamson who gave it the name Pultenaea paleacea var. robusta in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria from specimens collected near Gympie. [4] [5] In 2004, Rogier Petrus Johannes de Kok raised the variety to species status as Pultenaea robusta in Australian Systematic Botany . [3] [6]
This pultenaea grows in forest, heath or swampland from Wide Bay in Queensland to near Tweed Heads in far north-eastern New South Wales. [2] [3]
Pultenaea stipularis, commonly known as handsome bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with glabrous stems, linear to narrow elliptic leaves, and yellow to orange flowers, sometimes with red markings.
Pultenaea villosa, commonly known as hairy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy foliage, narrow elliptic to linear, oblong to club-shaped leaves, and yellow-orange and reddish-brown, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea borea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic to linear or egg-shaped leaves and yellow to orange and red flowers.
Pultenaea bracteamajor is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow to orange and red flowers.
Pultenaea bracteaminor is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect shrub with cylindrical leaves and yellow to orange and red flowers.
Pultenaea paleacea, commonly known as chaffy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate to spreading shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Pultenaea penna, commonly known as feather bush-pea, 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 pycnocephala, commonly known as dense-head bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and yellow to red and purple, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea rodwayi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy branchlets, linear leaves, and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea rostrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic to linear, oblong to club-shaped leaves and yellow to orange and reddish-brown, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea sericea, commonly known as chaffy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, straggling shrub with hairy branches, elliptic to linear leaves, and yellow and red to purple, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea spinosa, commonly known as grey bush-pea or spiny 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 erect shrub with glabrous stems, egg-shaped to rhombic leaves, and yellow-orange and red, 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.
Pultenaea tarik is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Gibraltar Range National Park in New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy, arching branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea tenella, commonly known as delicate bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the high country near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in south-eastern continental Australia. It is a small, prostrate, mat-forming shrub with elliptic to linear leaves and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea trichophylla, commonly known as tufted bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a slender, prostrate to erect shrub with hairy branchlets, lance-shaped leaves, and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea villifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to two disjunct areas of Australia. It is an erect to prostrate shrub with triangular to linear, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and yellow and red, pea-like flowers.
Pultenaea viscidula, commonly known as dark bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect shrub with branches that are sticky when young, linear to cylindrical, channelled leaves with stipules at the base, and yellow to orange and yellow-red to green flowers.
Pultenaea whiteana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and yellow to orange flowers.
Pultenaea williamsoniana, commonly known as Williamson's bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria, Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with its stems covered with white hairs, and has cylindrical, grooved leaves and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers arranged in clusters on the ends of short side branches.