Pultenaea hartmannii explained

Pultenaea hartmannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to an area around the border between New South Wales and Queensland. It is an erect shrub with hairy stems, oblong to triangular leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with red markings.

Description

Pultenaea hartmannii is an erect shrub with hairy stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, oblong to triangular with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with stipules about long at the base. The flowers are yellow with red markings, arranged in small, leafy clusters near the ends of branchlets. The flowers are long on pedicels about long with narrow triangular bracteoles long attached at the base of the sepal tube. The sepals are long, the ovary is hairy and the fruit is a flattened pod long.[1]

Taxonomy and naming

Pultenaea hartmannii was first formally described in 1874 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by Carl Heinrich Hartmann.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This pultenaea grows in forest on granite near Jennings on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales and in south-eastern Queensland.

Conservation status

This species is listed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pultenaea hartmannii . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 16 July 2021.
  2. Web site: Pultenaea hartmannii. APNI. 16 July 2021.
  3. Web site: Species profile—Pultenaea hartmannii . Queensland Department of Environment and Science . 16 July 2021.