Pultenaea boormanii

Pultenaea boormanii
Near Gilgandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Pultenaea
Species:	P. boormanii
Binomial name
Pultenaea boormanii H.B.Will.

Fruit in the Pilliga Scrub

Pultenaea boormanii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with linear, grooved leaves, pea-like flowers arranged near the ends of branchlets, and inflated pods.

Description

Pultenaea boormanii is a erect to low-lying shrub with hairy stems. The leaves are linear, 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long and 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) wide with stipules 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long at the base, the upper surface with a longitudinal groove and the tip pointed and turned downwards. The flowers are borne among leaves at the ends of the branchlets, and are 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long, each flower on a pedicel up to about 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long with bracteoles 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long. The fruit is an inflated pod about 5 mm (0.20 in) long.

Taxonomy

Pultenaea boormanii was first formally described in 1922 by Herbert Bennett Williamson in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, from specimens originally collected by John Luke Boorman at Minore in 1899.

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea grows in forest to woodland on sandy soil from the Pilliga Scrub to the Dubbo district.

External links

• Pultenaea boormanii: Images & occurrence data from GBIF