Common name: Queanbeyan Bush-pea
Pultenaea murrayi R.L.Barrett APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Queanbeyan (E.Gilbert 950001 et al.) APNI*
Inflorescence leafy, with very tightly clustered flowers. Calyx 6.1–8.6 mm long, tube glabrous or with short appressed hairs, lobes with very long, spreading hairs. Flowers yellow-orange with a broad red crescent at the base of the standard, keel dark red at apex. Standard petal 6.7–9.2 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs in apical 1/5 and on the adaxial side of the style base.
Pods ovoid, 4.9–6.2 mm long, sparsely hairy near apex.
Flowering: October–December.
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from a small area near Queanbeyan on the southern Tablelands. Gentle to steep hill slopes with stony brown soil over sandstone, in low open forest or woodland.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Previously confused with Pultenaea lapidosa, a species confied to Victoria.
Text by R.L. Barrett, March 2025
Taxon concept: Barrett RL, et al. (2024) Revision of the Pultenaea setulosa species complex (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) including 14 new species. Australian Systematic Botany 37, SB23014. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB23014
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