Pultenaea villosa
Pultenaea villosa
Pultenaea villоsa, commonly known as hairy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with softly-hairy foliage, narrow elliptic to linear, oblong to club-shaped leaves, and yellow-orange and reddish-brown, pea-like flowers.
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Overview
Pultenaea villosa is an erect, sometimes prostrate shrub, that typically grows to 0.25–2.5 m high and 3 m wide, with softly-hairy foliage and sometimes with weeping branches. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow elliptic to linear, oblong to club-shaped, mostly 3–10 mm long and 1.5–3.0 mm wide with stipules 1–4 mm long pressed against the stem at the base. The flowers are 5–12 mm long, arranged in small groups near the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel 1–4 mm long. The sepals are 3.5–11 mm long with bracteoles 3.4–5.3 mm long usually attached to the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange with reddish brown lines and 8.2–10.3 mm long, the wings yellow to orange and 8.2–9.2 mm long, and the keel reddish-brown and 7.6–8.7 mm long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to November and the fruit is an inflated pod 5–6 mm long.
Distribution & origin
Share of recorded occurrences by region- Australia97%
- Brazil1%
- Indonesia1%
- United States1%
Habitat & conservation
Hairy bush-pea grows in forest, heathland grassland and coastal dunes in south-east Queensland and on the coast and Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.
References
- 1Pultenaea villosa — Wikipedia — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), 2026
- 2''Pultenaea villosa'' — Australian Plant Census,
- 3''Pultenaea villosa'' — Royal Botanic Garden Sydney,
- 4A revision of Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 1. Species with ovaries glabrous and/or with tufted hairs — Australian Systematic Botany, 2002
- 5GBIF — occurrence records of Pultenaea villosa — GBIF, 2026
- 6Hình ảnh — Wikimedia Commons (6 ảnh, giấy phép CC/PD) — Wikimedia Commons, 2026
