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Pultenaea indira subsp. pudoides Orthia

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 18:186, Fig. 6e (2005)
Conservation Code
Priority Two
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Procumbent or erect, sparse or bushy shrub, 0.1-0.6 m high. Coarse loam and sandy clay with laterite gravel. Upper slopes of ridges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 13 May 2008

Scientific Description

Erect or 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, 7.5-13 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, hairy, with simple hairs, 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 absent (flowers sessile). Bracteoles present and persistent, 4.8-5 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 8-9 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 10.5-13 mm long, multicoloured, mostly yellow or brown, with some yellow or brown spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 9.5-12 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 8-10 mm long, not auriculate, keel 8-10 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), 8-8.6 mm long. Ovary sessile or subsessile, hairy or glandular; style 8.3-9 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 and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Avon Wheatbelt and Esperance IBRA regions. Conservation Code Priority Two (P2).

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

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Katanning, Merredin.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Narrogin, Ravensthorpe, Wagin, Wickepin.