Pultenaea tenuifolia R.Br.

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, shrub, spindly shrub (broom-like). Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 7-10 mm long, 0.3-0.5 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, 2-2.5 mm long, without glands, ribless. Pedicel present or absent (flowers sessile), 1 mm long, hairy. Bracteoles present and persistent, 2-2.3 mm long, hairy, not striate. Calyx 3-6 mm long, not accrescent, hairy, with simple hairs, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla 5-8.5 mm long, multicoloured, yellow, mostly red or orange, with some red or orange spots, streaks or blotches; claws present; standard 4.5-8 mm long, glabrous, not auriculate, wings 4-6.7 mm long, not auriculate, keel 4-6 mm long, not beaked, not auriculate, glabrous. Stamens ten; anthers 0.2-0.7 mm long, at two different levels (filaments alternately long and short); filaments free (or united at the very base), 3-4.5 mm long. Ovary stipitate, hairy or glandular; style 4-5 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 and November. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Warren and Esperance IBRA regions.