Pultenaea pedunculata
Matted Bush-pea
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Overview:
Pultenaea pedunculata, commonly known as matted bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia
It is a prostrate, densely matted shrub with softly-hairy branches that often form roots, narrow elliptic leaves, and bright yellow and brick-red flowers
Common name: Matted Bush-pea
Conservation status: Endangered in NSW
This species of pea is relatively common in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania but is listed as "endangered" in New South Wales under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act
It is only known from three disjunct populations in that state
Etymology:
The genus is named in honour of Richard Pulteney, an English surgeon and botanist, who also was the biographer of Linnaeus
The specific epithet (pedunculata) means "pedunculate"
Flowers
The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils near the ends of branches.
They are 4–9 mm long on a peduncle up to 30 mm long with narrow lance-shaped bracteoles 2–4 mm long attached near the base of the sepal tube
The sepals are 4–5 mm long, the standard petal bright yellow, sometimes with a brick-red base, the wings yellow to orange and the keel red to purple, although the colour of the flowers is very variable
Flowering occurs in most months but mainly from September to December
Fruit:
A spherical to egg-shaped pod 4–7 mm long
Leaves:
The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow elliptic, 6–11 mm long, 1–2 mm wide and sparsely hairy with stipules 2–3 mm long at the base
Stem & branches:
The branches are up to several metres long but rarely more than 20 cm off the ground, and often from roots to it
Roots:
Habit:
A prostrate, densely-matted shrub that forms carpets of 1 m or more in diameter, and has softy-hairy branches
Habitat:
Forest, woodland, heathland and grassland
In Tasmania it is common and widespread in dry, rocky places
Distribution:
Sydney in NSW through Victoria and south-eastern South Australia, to Tasmania
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
Pultenaea pedunculata was formally described in 1828 by English botanist William Jackson Hooker in the Botanical Magazine from specimens grown from seed collected by Charles Fraser
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