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Heathy bush pea

Pultenaea procumbens

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Description

Description: Procumbent shrub 15 cm tall; stems appressed-pubescent.

Leaves alternate, narrowly ovate to somewhat obovate, 3-nerved, at least at the base, ± straight or gently recurved along length, 4–7 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, apex aristate, margins flat to incurved, lower surface darker than upper; stipules 1.7–3.3 mm long.

Inflorescences apparently terminal, dense, leafy, with slightly enlarged stipules; bracts absent. Flowers 5–7 mm long; pedicels 0.9–1.6 mm long; bracteoles 3.1–3.5 mm long, stipulate, free, about 3/4 length of stipules, lanceolate, aristate, pubescent, attached to upper part of calyx tube; bracteolar stipules narrow-ovate, acuminate. Calyx 4.8–5.8 mm long, glabrous to moderately hairy; lobes acuminate. Ovary hairy only at apex.

Pod not known.

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