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Pultenaea stipularis Sm.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Handsome Bush-pea

Pultenaea stipularis Sm. APNI*

Description: Erect shrub; stems glabrous.

Leaves alternate, linear to narrow-elliptic, flat or slightly concave, 15–25 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex aristate, margins flat to slightly incurved; stipules to 10 mm long.

Inflorescences apparently terminal, dense; bracts imbricate, persistent, each composed of a leafless pair of enlarged stipules, or occasionally bearing a vestigial leaf. Flowers 10–15 mm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long; bracteoles 6–7 mm long, lacking stipules, linear-ovate, aristate, hairy near base, attached near centre of calyx tube. Calyx 8–9 mm long; lobes acuminate. Ovary hairy only at apex.

Pod 6–7 mm long, turgid.


Flower
Photo J. Plaza

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on sandstone; Gosford to Jervis Bay.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC
AVH map***

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


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