Handsome bush-pea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Pultenaea
Species:
P. stipularis
Binomial name
Pultenaea stipularis
Synonyms[1]
  • Pultenaea proteaeoides DC. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • Pultenaea psoraleoides Steud. nom. inval., nom. nud.
Habit in the Royal National Park

Pultenaea stipularis, commonly known as handsome bush-pea,[2] 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.

Description

Pultenaea stipularis is an erect shrub that typically grow to a height of 0.8–2 m (2 ft 7 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, linear to narrow elliptic, 15–26 mm (0.59–1.02 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide with stipules 7.8–9.3 mm (0.31–0.37 in) long at the base. The flowers are arranged in dense clusters at the ends of branches and are 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long, each flower on a pedicel 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long with overlapping bracts at the base. The sepals are 7.5–8.5 mm (0.30–0.33 in) long, joined at the base, and there are linear to triangular bracteoles 5.7–6.8 mm (0.22–0.27 in) long attached to the side of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange with red markings and 8.5–12.5 mm (0.33–0.49 in) long, the wings are yellow to orange and 8.2–12.3 mm (0.32–0.48 in) long and the keel is yellow to reddish-brown and 8.0–11.2 mm (0.31–0.44 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a pod about 6.5 mm (0.26 in) long.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Pultenaea stipularis was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland.[4][5]

Distribution and habitat

Handsome bush-pea grows in forest and tall heathland between Gosford on the Central Coast and Jervis Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Pultenaea stipularis". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pultenaea stipularis". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 de Kok, Rogier P.J.; West, Judith G. (2002). "A revision of Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 1. Species with ovaries glabrous and/or with tufted hairs". Australian Systematic Botany. 15 (1): 107–108.
  4. ↑ "Pultenaea stipularis". APNI. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Smith, James Edward (1794). A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. London: James Sowerby. p. 35. Retrieved 5 September 2021.


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