Pultenaea

  • Authority

    Isely, Duane. 1981. Leguminosae of the United States. III. Subfamily Papilionoideae: tribes Sophoreae, Podalyrieae, Loteae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25 (3): 1-264.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pultenaea

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Shrubs with usually alternate or crowded (-opposite, -whorled), simple leaves. Stipules either conspicuous, elongate, brown-scarious and forming a mantle about twigs, often connate, or small or obsolescent. Flowers axillary, most often terminally crowded into foliose heads; bracts small. Calyx bearing, or subtended by small or conspicuous bracteoles, upper lobes partially fused. Corolla orange-yellow (-pink) or bicolored, with clawed petals; standard suborbicular; keel incurved. Stamens free. Pistil sessile (-stipitate), villous (-glabrate), style subulate-tapering; stigma minute, terminal. Legume ovoid, turgid or compressed, dehiscent. Seeds 1-2, strophiolate.

  • Discussion

    x = 8 (Curtis, 1952). Williamson (1920-1928) revised Pultenaea in a serial treatment that included no generic description, no keys, and except for new taxa, minimal descriptions.

  • Distribution

    Australia, ca. 70 species. Two hort introductions in U.S.

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