Common name: Sydney Bush-pea
Pultenaea parviflora Sieber ex DC. APNI*
Description: Erect shrub; stems appressed-pubescent.
Leaves alternate, narrow- to broad-obovate to cuneate, 2–6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, apex obtuse to slightly notched, strongly recurved, margins incurved, concolorous or lower surface darker than upper; stipules c. 2 mm long.
Inflorescences subterminal, dense to somewhat lax, leafy; bracts absent. Flowers 5–7 mm long; pedicels 1–1.5 mm long; bracteoles c. 4 mm long, stipulate, free, more than twice length of stipules, linear, acute, hairy, attached near centre of calyx tube; bracteolar stipules narrow-triangular, acute. Calyx 4–5 mm long; lobes acuminate. Ovary hairy only at apex.
Pod c. 5 mm long, turgid.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on Wianamatta Shale, laterite or alluvium, Cumberland Plain.
NSW subdivisions: CC
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by P.H. Weston & R.P.J. de Kok Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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