''Pultenaea tuberculata'', commonly known as the wreath bush-pea,
is a flowering plant in the family
. It has yellow and red pea flowers and is
endemic to Australia.
Description
''Pultenaea tuberculata'' is a spreading to upright shrub to high, soft with curly hairs on the stems that are obscured by
stipules
In botany, a stipule is an outgrowth typically borne on both sides (sometimes on just one side) of the base of a leafstalk (the petiole). Stipules are considered part of the anatomy of the leaf of a typical flowering plant, although in many speci ...
. The leaves are arranged alternately, crowded, narrowly elliptic to narrow egg-shaped,
spathulate
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, flat to concave, mostly wide, wide. The leaf apex either pointed or rounded, rarely
aristate, margins curved inward, upper surface lighter green than underside, stipules long. The
inflorescence are borne at the end of stems, mostly in dense, leafy clusters, individual flowers long, orange-yellow with red markings on a
pedicel long,
bracteoles long, hairy and joined to the stipules just below the apex,
calyx
Calyx or calyce (plural "calyces"), from the Latin ''calix'' which itself comes from the Ancient Greek ''κάλυξ'' (''kálux'') meaning "husk" or "pod", may refer to:
Biology
* Calyx (anatomy), collective name for several cup-like structures ...
long. Flowering occurs from September to February and the fruit is a swollen pod about long.
Taxonomy and naming
''Pultenaea tuberculata'' was first formally described in 1805 by
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy.
Early life
Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immig ...
and the description was published in ''Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum''.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''tuberculata'') means "tuberculate" or "covered with small warty lumps".
Distribution and habitat
Wreath bush-pea grows in relatively high rainfall areas, on dry
sclerophyll forest, scrub and heathland on
sandstone from
Lake Macquarie in the north to
Bermagui in the south.
References
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tuberculata
Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1805