Common name: Prickly Bush-pea
Pultenaea acanthocalyx R.L.Barrett & Clugston APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Snowy Mountains (N.Taws 261) APNI*
Description: Sprawling shrub, 0.4–0.6 m high, young stems with short, crisped, spreading, matted hairs to 0.2 mm long.
Alternate, narrowly ±linear, 5.3–10.9 mm long, 0.4–0.9 mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly usually incurved and hiding the upper surface.
Inflorescence a loose cluster. Calyx 3.7–6.6 mm long, tube sparsely erect hairy, lobes with long, spreading to erect hairs. Flowers yellow-orange with small red marks at the base of the standard, keel deep red at apex. Standard petal 7.8–9.6 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs at base of style.
Pods ovoid, sparsely hairy near apex.
Flowering: November.
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from two locations at the northern end of the Snowy Mountains, one east of Tumut, at 330 m and one S of Yarrangobilly at 750 m in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. Rocky slopes in tall shrubland on dark brown, sandy loam on Bogong Granite
NSW subdivisions: ST
Text by R.L. Barrett, March 2025
Taxon concept: Barrett RL, et al. (2024) Revision of the Pultenaea setulosa species complex (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae) including 14 new species. Australian Systematic Botany 37, SB23014. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB23014
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