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Pultenaea flexilis Sm.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Graceful Bush-pea

Pultenaea flexilis Sm. APNI*

Synonyms: Dillwynia teucrioides Sieber ex DC., nom. inval. APNI*
Pultenaea sweetii D.Don APNI*
Dillwynia teucrioides Steud., nom. inval. APNI*
Pultenaea villosa var. glabrescens Benth. APNI*

Description: Erect shrub; stems sparsely spreading-hairy.

Leaves alternate, linear-obovate to narrow-obovate, 8–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex acuminate, margins flat or incurved, lower surface darker than upper; stipules 2–4 mm long.

Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, lax, leafy; bracts absent. Flowers 8–10 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long; bracteoles 1–3 mm long, lacking stipules, linear-ovate to ovate, acuminate to acute, glabrous or glabrescent, attached at base or lower part of calyx tube. Calyx 3–5 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy; lobes acuminate to acute. Ovary glabrous or with long hairs at the apex.

Pod 6–9 mm long, turgid.


Habit
Photo J. Plaza

Flower
Photo J. Plaza

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on acid, well-drained soils, north from Deua N.P.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Plants intermediate between P. flexilis and P. stipularis are occasionally found where these species grow together and are presumed to be hybrids.

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


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