Citation: R. Br. in W.T. Aiton, Hort. Kew. edn 2, 3:18 (1811).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rough bush-pea.

Description:
Erect shrub, 1-2 m high, with white-pubescent branches, occasionally with ferruginous hairs; leaves almost sessile, obcordate, 5-15 mm long, cuneate, broad, sharply notched, 2-lobed at the summit, with a short recurved mucronate tip, upper surface scabrous and hispid, tuberculate; lower villous, with prominent midrib and recurved margins; stipules lanceolate to setaceous, 1-4 mm long, often recurved, dark-brown.

Flowers in loose clusters of 2-5 terminating the branchlets, 7-12 mm long, the short pedicels finally exceeding the bracts; bracts occasionally present, imbricate, almost orbicular, c. 3 mm long, 2-lobed, pubescent, brown, scarious, very deciduous; bracteoles linear, attached on the base of the calyx tube, 3-5 mm long, leathery, brown, pubescent; calyx 4-5 mm long, silky-pubescent with white and ferruginous hairs, the upper 2 teeth broader and united higher up, the lower acuminate, equal to or longer than the calyx tube; standard about twice as long as the calyx, yellow and red; wings shorter, yellow; keel equalling the wings, crimson; ovary villous, tapering into a subulate style which is pubescent with long fine hairs.

Pod ovate-acute, 6-7 mm long, brown, hoary, 2-seeded; seed cordate or reniform, c. 2.5 mm long, dark-brown to blackish.

	Pultenaea scabra twig, leaf, flower and legume.
Image source: fig 367c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Galbraith (1967) Wildflowers of Victoria edn 3:t. 63; Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 191.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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