Pultenaea palssoniae R.L.Barrett & Clugston APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Narrabri (R.G.Coveny 8811 & S.K.Roy) APNI*
Pultenaea sp. I sensu Weston (1991) APNI*
Pultenaea sp. I (aff. boormanii) APNI*
Description: Erect or sprawling shrub 0.4–0.8(–1) m high, young stems with short, crisped, appressed, matted hairs to 0.2 mm long.
Alternate, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3.4–10.0 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly incurved, usually completely hiding the upper surface.
Inflorescence leafy, with loosely to tightly clustered flowers. Calyx 3.7–5.3 mm long, tube and lobes with short to long, appressed hairs. Flowers yellow-orange with a partial red crescent at the base of the standard, keel mostly yellow. Standard petal 7.0–7.5 mm wide. Ovary with long, appressed hairs throughout.
Pods ovoid, 4.6–5.8 mm long, sparsely hairy for most of length.
Flowering: (August–)October–December.
Distribution and occurrence: Elevated areas of the Nandewar Range, east of Narrabri and west of Barraba. Eucalypt shrubby woodland on rocky sites, in reddish-brown clay loam on basalt soils.
NSW subdivisions: NT
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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