Citation: N. Burb., Telopea 2:127 (1980).

Synonymy: P. eriantha sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 464 (1948), partly, non Benth.

Common name: Bullamon lucerne, white (or woolly) scurf-pea, woolly psoralea.

Description:
Perennial ascending finally decumbent subshrub, with grey to whitish aspect, branches pithy but stout-looking, to 60 cm long, striate lengthwise, densely grey-pubescent or villous and without visible glands; leaves 3-10 cm long, pinnately 3-foliolate, petioles 2-4 cm long, villous; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, obtuse, incurved-undulate, denticulate on the margins, densely grey-to white-tomentose on both sides, tomentum thinner above, the glands more or less obscured; lateral leaflets subsessile, terminal on 3-15mm long petiolules, largest, 1-5 x 0.5-3 cm; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, 5-7 mm long, villous, gland-dotted.

Inflorescence a loosely compact raceme, not interrupted at the base, exceeding the leaves; bracts ovate-lanceolate, c. 2 mm long, villous; peduncles shorter than leaves, 1-12 cm long, stout, villous; rhachis with up to 40 or more flowers, 3.5-15 cm long, mostly longer than the peduncle, semi-erect, finally ascending; flowers in 3's, subsessile, 7-11 mm long; calyx long, tubular, not open in fruit, 8-10 mm long, villous, hairs white or mixed with black; tube 3-5 mm long; lowest tooth slightly longer than the tube, 5-9 mm long, lateral less than half as long, upper 2 teeth about two-thirds as long as the lowest; petals as long as the lowest calyx-tooth or slightly longer, persistent in fruit; standard ovate-cuneate, 7-8 mm long, purplish or yellow; wings oblong-ovate, auriculate, clavate, shorter than the standard, purplish or yellowish; keel shortest, obovate, auriculate, clavate, purplish or yellow with a purple dot apically.

Pod reniform, c. 3 mm long, black, villous, indehiscent; seed brown.

Image source: fig. 320B in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  on sands, often on dunes.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.;. Conservation status: native Flowering time: all year round, depending on rainfall.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: There are a few specimens which resemble in habit P. australasica which has an interrupted longer inflorescence. Specimens with a long densely villous eglandular calyx key out as P. pallida, differing from P. eriantha in which the calyx is sericeous and eglandular, but the difference is not entirely clear; "hybridisations" have evidently contributed morphological variants making a clear species concept difficult (A. Lee (1980) Telopea 2:129-141).

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