Pultenaea parrisiae
J.D.Briggs & Crisp Parris's Bush-peaProcumbent subshrub with trailing branches to 60 cm long; stems silky-pubescent when young. Leaves alternate, linear to narrowly oblanceolate 4–17 mm long, 0.8–3 mm wide; apex acuminate, recurved; upper surface glabrous or occasionally with a row of appressed hairs along the midrib, darker than lower surface; lower surface with sparse, silky, appressed hairs; margin recurved; stipules 3–7 mm long, brown, closely appressed to stem. Inflorescence a small, dense terminal head of 4–7 flowers; bracts 4–9 mm long, apex trifid, with a central awn-like lobe; calyx 3.5–6 mm long, silky-hairy; bracteoles attached 0.5–1 mm above base of calyx tube, narrowly elliptic, 3–3.6 mm long, keeled, with scattered, long white hairs along keel; standard 3–4 mm wide, ovary densely covered with long white hairs. Pod flattened, basal half enclosed by calyx. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
EGL, EGU. Also NSW. Known in Victoria only from moist, heathy open-forest near Buldah in north-east Gippsland, with earlier records from the upper Genoa River and near the Bonang Highway south of Buldah.
