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Pultenaea empetrifolia Meisn.

Reference
Lehm., Pl.Preiss. [J.G.C.Lehmann] 1:76 (1844)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Spreading shrub, to 0.4 m high. Fl. yellow/orange & red/brown, Sep to Oct. Sandy clay, gravel, loam.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 31 July 1996
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Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 3-4.5 mm long, 0.6-1 mm wide, glabrous, strongly recurved, appearing terete but with one or two grooves below; tubercles absent; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present or absent (flowers sessile), 0.5 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 1.5-3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 4-4.6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 8-8.6 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow, red, orange or brown, with some yellow, red, orange or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 8-8.5 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 7-8 mm long, not auriculate, keel 6.2-7 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 4-5.5 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 5.5-7 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 and October. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Esperance IBRA regions.

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Corrigin, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, West Arthur, Woodanilling.