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Pultenaea aspalathoides Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:73-74 (1844)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, Sep to Dec. Sand, stony soils. Damp flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 31 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Erect, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, spiny at least in part, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, continuous with stem, 8-15 mm long, 0.8-1.5 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. Pedicel absent (flowers sessile). Bracteoles present and persistent. Calyx 5-8 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10-16.5 mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow; claws present; standard 10-13.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 9-12.5 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-11 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.6-1 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 7-10.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 9-11.5 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 September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Warren and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Manjimup, Plantagenet, West Arthur.