''Pultenaea foliolosa'', commonly known as the small-leaf bush-pea,
is a species of flowering plant in the family
and is
endemic
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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.
Description
''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
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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
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reddish-brown. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is an egg-shaped
pod
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Biology
* Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
* Husk or pod of a legume
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* "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
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about long.
Taxonomy
''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George Bentham from an unpublished description by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''.
Distribution and habitat
Small-leaf bush-pea grows in forest and woodland on the tablelands of south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales and north-eastern Victoria.
References
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Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Queensland
Flora of Victoria (state)
foliolosa
Plants described in 1837
Taxa named by George Bentham