Pultenaea platyphylla
Pultenaea platyphylla, commonly known as flat-leaf bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, rigidly-branched shrub with narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers. Description
Pultenaea platyphylla is an erect, rigidly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of  with stems that are hairy when young. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrow egg-shaped to wedge-shaped with the narrower end towards the base,  long,  wide, the upper surface concave and with stipules  long at the base. The flowers are arranged in clusters of more than five on the ends of branches and are  long, each flower on a pedicel about  long with overlapping, egg-shaped bracts  long at the base. The sepals are  long, joined at the base, and there are narrow egg-shaped bracteoles about  long attached to the upper part of the sepal tube. The standard petal is yellow to orange with a reddish base and  wide, the wings are yellow to orange and the keel is red to purple. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a flattened pod  long. Taxonomy
Pultenaea platyphylla was first formally described in 1957 by Norman Arthur Wakefield in The Victorian Naturalist from specimens collected at Mt. Tarrengower near Maldon in 1921. The specific epithet (platyphylla) means "flat-leaved". Distribution and habitat
Flat-leaf bush-pea grows in forest on granite hills in scattered locations in north-eastern Victoria and south of Temora in New South Wales. References

Fabales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
platyphylla
Plants described in 1957