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Smooth Bush-Pea

Smooth Bush-Pea

Pultenaea glabra

Family Fabaceae

Vulnerable — AUS: Vulnerable, NSW: Vulnerable

About

Pultenaea glabra, commonly known as smooth bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with glabrous stems, linear to egg-shaped leaves with a concave upper surface, and yellow to red and orange flowers.

How to spot it

Pultenaea glabra is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5–3 m (4 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, linear to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide with a concave upper surface and stipules 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long at the base. The flowers are arranged in dense, leafy clusters near the ends of branchlets and are about 10 mm (0.39 in) long on pedice

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Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Pultenaea glabra

Photo via iNaturalist Australia (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)), collected by James Bevan