Pultenaea daphnoides

Pultenaea daphnoides, commonly known as large-leaf bush-pea, is an erect evergreen shrub in the Fabaceae endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring in dry sclerophyll forest, heath and shrubby woodland on sandy and lateritic soils in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Plants grow 0.5 to 3 metres tall with slender, ascending, finely hairy stems. The alternate, sessile to very shortly petiolate leaves are obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 1 to 4 centimetres long, leathery, glabrous above, finely silky beneath, with the apex broadly notched and bearing a short fine mucro at the centre of the sinus — a diagnostic character of the species. Bright yellow pea-shaped flowers about 10 to 12 millimetres long, with the standard petal often marked with a reddish-brown blotch at the centre, are densely clustered into terminal heads of 8 to 20 flowers; each flower is subtended by hairy, papery bracteoles. The fruit is a small, swollen, broadly ovate flattened pod 5 to 7 millimetres long containing one or two seeds. Flowering occurs in spring.