Common name: Boggabri Bush-pea
Pultenaea imminuta R.L.Barrett & S.F.McCune APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Maules Creek (M.V.Robinson s.n., NSW1115296) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub c. 0.6 m high, young stems with short, slightly crisped or straight, appressed, matted hairs to 0.5 mm long.
Alternate, ±llinear, 3.9–14.0 mm long, 0.5–0.9(–1.4) mm wide, mucronate, margins strongly incurved, mostly or completely hiding the upper surface.
Inflorescence leafy, with loosely to tightly clustered flowers. Calyx 4.3–5.9 mm long, tube and lobes with long, spreading hairs. Flowers yellow-orange with minute red marks at the base of the standard, keel yellow-orange. Standard petal 4.0–5.8 mm wide. Ovary with a tuft of long, appressed hairs in apical 5/6–1/2.
Pods not seeen.
Flowering: September.
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from the Leard State Forest, north-east of Boggabri, south-east of Narrabri. Grows in eucalypt and cypress pine woodland on skeletal soils derived from basalt over conglomerate on mid to upper slopes of hills.
NSW subdivisions: NWS
A poorly known species and further collections are desirable.
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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