Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 1m high with stems covered with curly hairs.
Flowers: Yellow to orange pea flowers up to 1.5cm long with red markings and dark red keel and borne in dense often leafy terminal clusters.
Flowering: September-December.
Fruit: A swollen pod 5mm long.
Leaves: Alternate, rough textured, crowded, elliptic to obovate up to 1.5cm long and 2-6mm wide, hairy and with incurved margins. The underside is darker than the upper surface.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Yellow to orange pea flower with large rusty stipules. Sharply-pointed crowded leaves often longer than the flowers.
Name:
Pultenaea After the English botanist Dr. William Pulteney.
tuberculata From Latin tuberculum = a small bump or swelling and atus = like (referring to its fruit being a swollen pod).
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Pea, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow, Orange, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11, 12 |
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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 |
Oval, Spoon |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Rough, Sharp tip, |
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Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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