Pultenaea boormanii

Pultenaea boormanii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with linear, grooved leaves, pea-like flowers arranged near the ends of branchlets, and inflated pods.

Description

Pultenaea boormanii is a erect to low-lying shrub with hairy stems. The leaves are linear, long and wide with stipules long at the base, the upper surface with a longitudinal groove and the tip pointed and turned downwards. The flowers are borne among leaves at the ends of the branchlets, and are long, each flower on a pedicel up to about long with bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long. The fruit is an inflated pod about long.

Taxonomy

Pultenaea boormanii was first formally described in 1922 by Herbert Bennett Williamson in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, from specimens originally collected by at Minore in 1899.

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea grows in forest to woodland on sandy soil from the Pilliga Scrub to the Dubbo district.