Citation: Sims, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 38:t. 1588 (1813).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rigid bush-pea.

Description:
A small shrub, erect to 1 m high or decumbent, branches ribbed and pubescent when young; leaves pedicellate, ovate to oblong or broadly oblong, 5-10 x 2-5 mm, tips obtuse with a short recurved mucro, almost flat, midrib prominent on the lower surface, with slightly thickened margins, glabrous or sometimes more or less pubescent beneath only; stipules broad-lanceolate, c. 1 mm long, brown, leathery.

Flowers subsessile, 8-10 mm long, clustered in heads at the tips of the branches, surrounded by bracts; bracts scarious, brown, the outer truncate, 2-3 mm long, bilobed and sometimes with a short point between the lobes, ciliate, sometimes the midrib and base hairy, inner narrowly ovate, to 4 mm long, all usually fallen by anthesis; bracteoles attached on the upper half of the calyx tube, lanceolate-obovate, c. 3 mm long and reaching almost to the summit of the teeth, concave, brown, scarious, persistent; calyx c. 5 mm long, villous with long silky hairs, teeth triangular, shorter than the tube, the upper 2 broader; standard suborbicular, as wide as long, yellow streaked red, not suddenly contracted into a claw; wings obovate, yellow, auriculate above the slender claw; keel obovate-oblong, equalling the wings in length, crimson distally; ovary villous; style slightly thickened towards the base.

Pod ovate-acute, c. 6 mm long, flattened, brown, strigose, 2-seeded; seed cordate, c. 2 mm long, dark-brown, dull.

	Pultenaea stricta twig, sessile flower, leaf, legume and seed.
Image source: fig 368a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Corrick (1977) Victorian Nat. 94:27, fig. 4.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available