Pultenaea platyphylla explained

Pultenaea platyphylla, commonly known as flat-leaf 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, rigidly-branched shrub with narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.

Description

Pultenaea platyphylla is an erect, rigidly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of with stems that are hairy when young. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide, the upper surface concave and with stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in clusters of more than five on the ends of branches and are long, each flower on a pedicel about long with overlapping, egg-shaped bracts long at the base. The sepals are long, joined at the base, and there are narrow egg-shaped bracteoles about long attached to the upper part of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange with a reddish base and wide, the wings are yellow to orange and the keel is red to purple. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a flattened pod long.[2] [3]

Taxonomy

Pultenaea platyphylla was first formally described in 1957 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected at Mt. Tarrengower near Maldon in 1921.[4] [5] The specific epithet (platyphylla) means "flat-leaved".[6]

Distribution and habitat

Flat-leaf bush-pea grows in forest on granite hills in scattered locations in north-eastern Victoria and south of Temora in New South Wales.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Corrick . Margaret G. . Pultenaea platyphylla . Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 12 August 2021.
  2. Web site: Pultenaea platyphylla . Royal Botanic Garden Sydney . 12 August 2021.
  3. Web site: Wood . Betty . Pultenaea platyphylla . Lucid Keys . 12 August 2021.
  4. Web site: Pultenaea platyphylla. APNI. 12 August 2021.
  5. Wakefield . Norman A. . Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 11 . The Victorian Naturalist . 1557 . 73 . 10 . 164 . 13 August 2021.
  6. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 279 . 3rd.