Common name: Coricudgy Bush-pea
Pultenaea mutabilis var. angusta M.A.M.Renner, P.H.Weston & S.Clarke APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Newnes (I.R.Telford 5072 & M.D.Crisp) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub to 4 m; branchlets glabrous with loosely appressed hairs.
Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, 6.1–18.3 mm long, 0.4–1.0 mm wide, apex acuminate, margins inrolled and channelled but dorsal surface visible, surfaces discolorous, lower surface bright green, darker than slightly glaucous-green upper surface; stipules c. 2.2 mm long.
Inflorescence irregular, not terminal, dense but not contracted, leafy, the leaves often smaller and with slightly enlarged stipules; bracts absent. Flowers c. 10 mm long, pedicels to 2 mm long; bracteoles c. 1.5 mm long, lacking stipules, narrow-ovate to ovate, acuminate, sparesely appressed hairy, attached near base of calyx tube. Calyx c. 4.5 mm long; lobes acuminate. Ovary glabrous.
Pods c. 5 mm long, turgid.
Flowering: September–October
Distribution and occurrence: Western edge of the Blue Mtns, from the Newnes Plateau in the south to Mount Coricudgy in the north. Sandstone exposures in steep gully heads, on steep rocky hillsides, gullies between pagodas, or on ledges, in forest, dry sclerophyll woodland, mallee, and shrubland communities.
NSW subdivisions: CWS
Previously included under a broad concept of P. glabra. Differs from var. mutabilis by the linear leaves 0.4–1.0 mm wide.
Text by M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, Aug. 2022
Taxon concept: Renner et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 159 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1071/SB21030
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