Common name: Nullo Mountain Bush-pea
Pultenaea praecipua subsp. temperata M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett APNI* Synonyms: Pultenaea sp. Nullo Mountain (M.A.M.Renner et al. 9034) APNI*
Description: Erect shrub to 0.8 m; branchlets with short appressed hairs.
Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, 9.2–21.6 mm long, 0.6–1.2 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 not seen, 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. 5 mm long; lobes acuminate.
Pods not seen.
Flowering: In bud late September
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from Nullo Mountain, Wollemi National Park. On a sandstone shelf with shallow pale grey sandy loam soil, surrounded by dry sclerophyll forest.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Previously included under a broad concept of P. glabra. Differs from subsp. praecipua by narrower linear leaves 0.6–1.2 mm wide, the adaxial surface enclosed by the inrolled leaf, so glaucous colour of columnar papillae is not or hardly visible.
Text by M.A.M.Renner & R.L.Barrett, Aug. 2022
Taxon concept: Renner et al., Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 170 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1071/SB21030
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