Common name: Genowlan Bush-pea
Pultenaea praecipua subsp. praecipua M.A.M.Renner & P.H.Weston APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Genowlan Point (NSW 417813) APNI*
Pultenaea sp. Genowlan Point (Allen s.n., 29 Nov. 1997) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub to 1 m; branchlets with short appressed hairs.
Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, 9.2–21.6 mm long, 0.6–2.1 mm wide, apex acuminate, margins sometimes almost flat, but usually inrolled, surfaces discolorous, lower surface green, slightly darker than glaucous-green upper surface; stipules c. 4 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 1 mm long; bracteoles c. 2 mm long, lacking stipules, narrow-ovate to ovate, acuminate, glabrous, attached near base of calyx tube. Calyx c. 6 mm long; lobes acute. Ovary glabrous.
Pods not seen.
Flowering: October–November
Distribution and occurrence: Genowlan Point, the northern-most extension of the plateau within Mugii Murum-ban National Park. On a flat sandstone pavement with skeletal soil on the edge of a precipice, with sparse low shrubs and sedges.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Critically Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Critically Endangered
Previously included under a broad concept of P. glabra. Differs from subsp. temperata in having wider oblanceolate leaves 0.6–2.1 mm wide with the adaxial surface mostly exposed, strongly glaucous due to dense columnar papillae.
Text by M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, Aug. 2022
Taxon concept: Renner et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 168 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1071/SB21030
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