Pultenaea cinerascens is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub with narrow oblong to wedge-shaped leaves, and groups of yellow and red flowers.

Pultenaea cinerascens
In the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Pultenaea
Species:
P. cinerascens
Binomial name
Pultenaea cinerascens

Description

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Pultenaea cinerascens is an erect to spreading shrub with softly-hairy branches. The leaves are narrow oblong to wedge-shaped, 3–15 mm (0.12–0.59 in) long and 0.5–1.0 mm (0.020–0.039 in) wide with stipules 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long at the base and the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged near the ends of the branchlets and are 7–12 mm (0.28–0.47 in) long on a pedicel 0.5–2 mm (0.020–0.079 in) long with hairy, linear bracteoles 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long and hairy and the fruit is a flattened pod 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long.[2]

Taxonomy and naming

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Pultenaea cinerascens was first formally described in 1905 by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected near Warialda by John Luke Boorman in 1905.[3][4] The specific epithet (cinerascens) means "becoming ash-grey".

Distribution and habitat

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This pultenaea grows in forest on sandstone between Coolatai and Parkes in central New South Wales.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Pultenaea cinerascens". Australian Plant Census. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Pultenaea cinerascens". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Pultenaea cinerascens". APNI. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  4. ^ Maiden, Joseph; Betche, Ernst (1905). "Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney No. 11". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 30 (3): 361–362. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.12909. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.