Common name: Pound Creek Bush-pea
Pultenaea farmeriana APNI* %20Revision%20of%20the%20Pultenaea%20setulosa%20species%20complex%20(Fabaceae:%20Mirbelieae)%20including%2014%20new%20species.%20Australian%20Systematic%20Botany%2037,%20SB23014.%20https://doi.org/10.1071/SB23014)
Description: Erect, spreading or decumbent shrub, 0.25–0.5 m high, young stems with short, crisped, appressed, matted hairs to 0.4 mm long.
Alternate, ±linear, 4.7–7.3 mm long, 0.4–0.7(–0.9) mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly incurved, usually hiding the upper surface.
Inflorescence leafy, with tightly clustered flowers. Calyx 6.6–8.8 mm long, tube glabrous, lobes with long, spreading hairs near margins. Flowers orange-yellow with a broad red crescent at the base of the standard, keel deep red at apex. Standard petal 6.4–8.0 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs at the apex.
Pods not seen.
Flowering: October–November
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from a single location on Pound Creek Station, at an altitude of
NSW subdivisions: 600, m,, south, of, Orange,, in, the, Central, Tablelands. On, gentle, slopes,, on, stony,, red–brown, clay, and, sand, in, dry, sclerophyll, forest., CT
Text by R.L. Barrett, March 2025
Taxon concept: R.L.Barrett, Orme & P.H.Weston
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