Pultenaea blakelyi, commonly known as Blakely's bush-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with sharply-pointed, narrow elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and yellow to orange flowers in open clusters in leaf axils or at the ends of branches.
Pultenaea blakelyi is an erect shrub that grows to a height, but typically up to, and has stems that are hairy when young. The leaves are mostly arranged in opposite pairs, narrow elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. There are stipules long at the base and a sharp point at the tip. The flowers are yellow, long and borne in open clusters in leaf axils or at the ends of branchlets on pedicels about long. There are lance-shaped bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long and hairy and the standard petal is long. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a flattened oval pod long.[2] [3] [4] [5]
This species was first formally described in 1941 by William Blakely who gave it the name Pultenaea trinervia in Contribution from the new South Wales Herbarium.[6] In 1958, Joy Thompson changed its name to Pultenaea blakelyi in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, distinguishing it from Pultenaea trinervis J.M.Black.[7] The specific epithet (blakelyi) honours Blakely.
Pultenaea blakelyi grows in forest on the coast and tablelands of New South Wales between Myall Lakes and Merimbula but there is also a single record from Traralgon in Victoria.