Pullenia gunnii

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• Pullenia gunnii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is the sole species in genus Pullenia.[2]

• It is an annual, perennial, or subshrub native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria (Australia).[1][3]

• The genus was circumscribed by Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi in J. Jap. Bot. vol.93 (Issue 5) on pages 299-301 in 2018. The genus name of Pullenia is in honour of Royal 'Roy' Pullen (1925 - 2009), who was an Australian plant collector. Including between 1957-1972 collecting in Papua New Guinea.[4]

• Description

• This plant is a sprawling to ascending perennial; with stems to 40 cm (16 in) long, glabrous or with appressed hairs.

• It has 3-foliolate leaves; leaflets rhombic and truncate at apex, subglabrous, a few hairs on veins on lower surface, terminal leaflets 0.5–2 cm long, 7–11 mm wide, lateral leaflets smaller; petiole 10–30 mm long; stipules 2–4 mm long.

• Racemes to 16 cm (6 in) long, pedicels 1.5–7 mm long. The flowers are 1–1.2 mm long and in shades of pink or lavender.

• Pods are up to 30 mm long; with a dense indumentum of spreading hooked hairs and has up to 6 articles (a fruit with constrictions between the seeds) which are 4–5 mm long

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Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullenia_gunnii (2024)