Common name: Pine Ridge bush-pea
Pultenaea setigera A.Cunn. ex Benth. APNI* Description: Probably an erect shrub; stems appressed-pubescent.
Leaves alternate, narrowly ovate to somewhat obovate, 3-nerved, at least at the base, ± straight or gently curved along length, concave, 2.0–4.1 mm long, 1.0–1.6 mm wide, apex shortly aristate, margins flat to incurved, lower surface darker than upper; stipules 1.5–2.5 mm long.
Inflorescences apparently terminal, dense, leafy, with enlarged stipules; bracts absent. Flowers 5–6 mm long; pedicels 0.7–0.9 mm long; bracteoles 3.3–3.7 mm long, stipulate, free, about 1.5x length of stipules, linear, shortly aristate, pubescent, attached to upper part of calyx tube; bracteolar stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx 3.9–5.3 mm long, moderately hairy; lobes acuminate. Ovary hairy only at apex.
Not known.
Flowering: October.
Distribution and occurrence: Only known from the vicinity of Rock Forest, ENE of Bathurst. Uncertain, but probably open woodland below granite ridges.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Previously included under a broad concept of Pultenaea procumbens. Known only from the type collection made in 1822 and possibly extinct.
Text by R.L. Barrett, Jan. 2023
Taxon concept: R.L. Barrett et al., in prep.
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