Common name: Wagga Wagga bush-pea
Pultenaea corrickiae R.L.Barrett, Orme & Clugston APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Wagga Wagga (G.Burrows 13) APNI*
Description: Erect to spreading shrub, 0.6–1.6 m high, young stems with short, crisped, spreading to erect, tangled hairs to 0.5 mm long.
Alternate, narrow-lanceolate, 4.3–8.5 mm long, 0.5–1.4 mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly incurved.
Inflorescence leafy, with separated to loosely clustered flowers. Calyx 5.7–7.1 mm long, tube and lobes with long, spreading hairs. Flowers orange-yellow with an irregular red band at the base of the standard, keel deep red at apex. Standard petal 7.6–8.4 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs covering most of length.
Pods ovoid, 3.8–4.2 mm long, moderately hairy in apical 1/2.
Flowering: Mostly September–November.
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from four locations, near Wagga Wagga, south of Mundarlo, north of Tumut, and near Talbingo. Grows in Eucalyptus woodland on gentle slopes on clay loam.
NSW subdivisions: SWS, ST
Previously confused with P. lapidosa which is endemic to northern Victoria.
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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