Pultenaea victoriensis explained

Pultenaea victoriensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with hairy young stems, wedge-shaped to oblong leaves with a notched tip, and yellow and dark red, pea-like flowers.

Description

Pultenaea victoriensis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, its young stems with hairs flattened against the surface. The leaves are arranged alternately, wedge-shaped to oblong with a notched tip, mostly long and wide on a petiole long with stipules long pressed against the stem at the base. The flowers are usually arranged singly at the ends of short side branches with six to nine egg-shaped bracts long, but that fall off as the flower opens. The sepals are long with bracteoles long attached to the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow with red lines and long, the wings deep yellow and long, and the keel dark red with a cream-coloured base and the same length as the wings. Flowering occurs from November to December and the fruit is an egg-shaped pod long.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

Pultenaea victoriensis was first formally described in 1993 by Margaret G. Corrick in the journal Muelleria from specimens she collected near the Victoria Range Track in the Western Grampians in 1991.[3]

Distribution and habitat

Pultenaea victoriensis only occurs on the high rocky slopes of the Victoria Range at altitudes above .

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Corrick . Margaret G. . Pultenaea victoriensis . Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria . 31 August 2021.
  2. Corrick . Margaret G. . A new species of Pultenaea (Fabaceae) in Victoria . Muelleria . 1993 . 8 . 1 . 51–53 . 22 September 2021.
  3. Web site: Pultenaea victoriensis. APNI. 22 September 2021.