Pultenaea subspicata
Low Bush-pea at Belconnen, ACT
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| Pultenaea subspicata | MichaelMulvaney | 21 Apr 2016 |
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About 75 clumps - amongst grassland/open woodland that was subsequently overplanted with Eucalyptus cinerea, above bike track On Ginninderra Foreshores, over an area of 100m (parallel to track) x 20m (upslope)
4 comments
14 Apr 2016
I'm a bit tentative about the ID of this plant given that it wasn't flowering and Pultenaea laxiflora hasn't been recorded in the ACT since 1971. With this population probably destroyed when they built Benjamin Way in Belconnen and there being only one other ACT record of this plant, in 1961 from "Weetangra".
14 Apr 2016
I am not familiar with this species. The leaves and habit fit the description in Flora of the ACT well. I have also checked all the species in the section of the Plantnet key that contains P. laxiflora, and no others fit. The sighting is potentially so important that you could wait till it flowers so as to get a specimen to the herbarium.
15 Apr 2016
Thanks Betty yes I will collect a specimen for the Herbarium when it flowers
21 Apr 2016
Rosemary Purdie stated in emails that "Based on comparing your photos (esp the close-up of the leaves) with herbarium specimens, the plant looks more like Pultenaea subspicata" and "I can confirm that the Pultenaea on the Shores of lake Ginninderra is definitely not P. laxiflora, but P. subspicata. The closest herbarium collection is ..the Belconnen Naval Base at Lawson".
Location information
- Coordinates 149.068727-35.228608
- Maps Lake Ginninderra
- Places Belconnen, ACT
Sighting information
- 75 Abundance
- 13 Apr 2016 04:07 PM Recorded on
- MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
- Less than 10cm Plant height
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Species information
- Pultenaea subspicata Scientific name
- Low Bush-pea Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1330.59m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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