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Mount Barney Bush-pea

Mount Barney Bush-pea

Pultenaea whiteana

Family Fabaceae

Rare - Mount Barney/Maroon Endemic

About

Endemic to Mount Barney and Mount Maroon, this erect pea shrub was first collected from heath-like vegetation on Mount Maroon's upper rocky slopes and occurs at 900-1,200m altitude.

How to spot it

Erect shrub 0.5-1m with sparsely hairy linear leaves 6.2-10mm, yellow-to-orange pea flowers August-January, found in heath, forest understorey and on cliffs.

Found in

  • Mount Barney National Park

Source: Wikipedia - Pultenaea whiteana

Photo: Murray Fagg (CC BY 3.0 AU) via Wikimedia Commons