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Pultenaea euchila DC.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Orange Pultenaea, Large-flower Bush-pea

Pultenaea euchila DC. APNI*

Description: Erect shrub; stems glabrous.

Leaves alternate, narrow-obovate, 10–20 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, apex rounded and often minutely notched, margins usually incurved, lower surface darker than upper; stipules 1–2 mm long.

Inflorescences subterminal or apparently terminal, lax, leafy; bracts absent. Flowers 10–15 mm long; pedicels up to 10 mm long; bracteoles 1.5–3 mm long, lacking stipules, linear to linear-ovate, acute, glabrous, attached below or at base of calyx tube. Calyx 6–8 mm long, glabrous; lobes acuminate. Ovary glabrous.

Pod 8–9 mm long, turgid.


Flower
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, on sandy to clayey soils, north from Lake Macquarie.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by P.H. Weston & R.P.J. de Kok
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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