Common name: Woomargama Bush-pea
Pultenaea venusta R.L.Barrett & Orme APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Woomargama (E.J.McBarron 2493) APNI*
Description: Spreading or scrambling shrub, 0.4–1.0 m high, young stems with short, straight or curved, ±erect hairs to 0.6 mm long.
Alternate, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate, 3.3–5.1(–6.9) mm long, 0.7–1.2(-1.9 when flattened) mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly incurved.
Inflorescence a head-like cluster. Calyx 5.8–7.2 mm long, tube densely hairy, lobes with long, spreading hairs. Flowers orange-yellow with yellow and dark red llines at the base of the standard, keel deep red at apex. Standard petal 6.4–7.9 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs at base of style.
Pod ovate, apex hairy.
Flowering: September–December
Distribution and occurrence: Near Woomargama, NE of Albury In open woodland.
NSW subdivisions: SWS
Differs from members of the P. procumbens species complex in the narrow leaves, 0.7–1.0(–1.6 when flattened) mm wide.
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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