Pultenaea flexilis

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         Graceful Bush-pea

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The genus is named in honour of Richard Pulteney, an English surgeon and botanist, who also was the biographer of Linnaeus

• Pultenaea flexilis was first formally described in 1805 by James Edward Smith in the journal Annals of Botany from specimens collected at Port Jackson.[4][5] The specific epithet (flexilis) is a Latin word meaning "flexible", referring to the leaves

Flowers

• The flowers are arranged in clusters near the ends of branchlets and are 8–10 mm long

• Each flower is on a pedicel 2–5 mm long

• The sepals are 3–5 mm long with papery linear bracteoles 1–3 mm long near the base

• The petals are yellow to orange sometimes with red markings

• Flowering occurs from winter to spring 

Fruit:                            

• A pod 6–9 mm long

Leaves:         

• The leaves are linear to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and the lower surface darker than the upper

• They are 8–20 mm long and 2–4 mm wide with stipules 2–4 mm long at the base 

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• An erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 4 m and sometimes has sparsely hairy stems

Habitat:   

• Forest 

Distribution:                  

• On the coast and tablelands of south-east Queensland and NSW as far south as Deua National Park

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pultenaea_flexilis (2025)