Common name: Newnes Plateau Bush-pea
Pultenaea mutabilis var. mutabilis M.A.M.Renner & P.H.Weston APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Lees Pinch (L.A.S.Johnson s.n.: NSW 17642) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub to 4 m; branchlets glabrous with loosely appressed hairs.
Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, 9.8–21.7 mm long, 1.3–3.1 mm wide, apex acuminate, margins not inrolled, nearly flat, surfaces weakly discolorous, lower surface green, slightly darker than glaucous-green upper surface; stipules c. 2 mm long.
Inflorescence irregular, not terminal, dense but not contracted, leafy, the leaves often smaller and with slightly enlarged stipules; bracts absent. Flowers c. 10 mm long, pedicels to 2 mm long; bracteoles c. 2 mm long, lacking stipules, narrow-ovate to ovate, acuminate, appressed hairy, attached near base of calyx tube. Calyx c. 6 mm long; lobes acuminate. Ovary glabrous.
Pods c. 5 mm long, turgid.
Flowering: September–November
Distribution and occurrence: From the southern side of the Hunter Valley south to Lees Pinch in Goulburn River National Park. On shale bedrockor sandstone, on faces and slopes, and broad ridges in dry or wet sclerophyll forest.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Previously included under a broad concept of P. glabra. Differs from var. angusta by the oblanceolate leaves 1.3–3.1 mm wide.
Text by M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, Aug. 2022
Taxon concept: Renner et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 155 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1071/SB21030
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