Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 2m high.
Flowers: Golden-yellow pea flower with red centre and dark red keel borne in dense terminal clusters. The flowers are usually hairy, up to 1.5cm long and up to 3cm across.
Flowering: August-November.
Fruit: Flattened pod 5-7mm long.
Leaves: Alternate, obovate or wedge-shaped up to 4cm long and up to 1cm wide with a small point at their rounded tip. The upper surface is darker than the underside.
Habitat: In moist, dense understorey areas in both wet- and dry-sclerophyll forest.
Features: Alternate, wedge-shaped leaves. Yellow pea flowers with a small red centre.
Name:
Pultenaea After the English botanist Dr. William Pulteney
daphniodes From having leaves like a Daphne
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Pea, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Spoon, Other |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Sharp-tipped, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, Dry sclerophyll forest |
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