Common name: Hard-head Bush-pea
Pultenaea capitellata Sieber ex DC. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate shrub; stems appressed-pubescent.
Leaves alternate, elliptic to broad-obovate, convex with central groove, 3–12 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse and recurved, margins recurved to revolute, upper surface darker than lower; stipules 1–3 mm long.
Inflorescences terminal, dense; bracts imbricate, persistent, 3–5 mm long, 3-lobed, the inner oblong to spathulate, outer circular, central lobe subulate. Flowers c. 9 mm long. Bracteoles 3–5 mm long, lacking stipules, narrow-ovate, acuminate, hairy, attached to the middle or lower part of the calyx tube. Calyx 5–6 mm long, moderately to densely hairy; lobes acuminate. Ovary hairy.
Pod c. 6 mm long, flattened.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in swamp heath to dry sclerophyll forest on acidic substrates, south from Boyd Plateau.
NSW subdivisions: SC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by P.H. Weston & R.P.J. de Kok
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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