Pultenaea foliolosa, commonly known as the small-leaf bush-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with elliptic to oblong leaves that are concave on the upper surface, and yellow to orange and reddish-brown flowers.
Pultenaea foliolosa is an erect to low-lying or sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of and with softly-hairy stems. The leaves are elliptic to oblong, concave on the upper surface, long and wide with lance-shaped stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on short side-shoots and are long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are long with egg-shaped to lance-shaped, papery bracteoles long attached to the side of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange and long, the wings yellow to orange and the keel reddish-brown. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod about long.[2] [3]
Pultenaea foliolosa was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in his book Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus.[4] [5]
Small-leaf bush-pea grows in forest and woodland on the tablelands of south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales and north-eastern Victoria.