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Pultenaea daena Orthia & Chappill

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 18:171-172, Fig. 9d (2005)
Conservation Code
Priority Three
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, prostrate, domed shrub, to 0.07 m high. Fl. yellow, Mar. White to yellow sand or sandy loam, sandy or loamy clay, gravel, limestone, dolomite, laterite. Gently undulating plains, adjacent to salt lakes, in disturbed areas.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 10 November 2004
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Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling or twining or climbing plants, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, opposite or alternate, continuous with stem, 2-4 mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, flat with flat margins; margins entire; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves, 1.2 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present, 3 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2.5-3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4.2-4.5 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 6-8 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 6-6.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 5-7.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 5.5-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3.7-6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 5.5-6.5 mm long, hairy or glandular towards the base, not bearded, terete. Fruit dehiscent (a pod or follicle), sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, flat or compressed, not beaked. Flowers in March. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Coolgardie and Mallee IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Three (P3).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.