Pultenaea prolifera, commonly known as Otway bush-pea,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Victoria. It is an erect shrub with needle-shaped leaves, and yellow and red pea-like flowers arranged singly in leaf axils on the ends of short side branches.
Pultenaea prolifera is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, often with long, pendulous branches. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and wide with lance-shaped stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in one or two leaf axils on the ends of short side branches with hairy, broadly egg-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are long with hairy, broadly egg-shaped bracteoles long at the base of the sepal tube. The standard petal is wide and yellow with a red base. The fruit is a pod surrounded by the remains of the sepals.[2]
Pultenaea prolifera was first formally described in 1922 by Herbert Bennett Williamson in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria from specimens collected near the Otway Forest in 1921.[3]
This pultenaea grows in the heathy understorey of forest in near-coastal areas of western Victoria.