Pultenaea tenella
Pultenaea tenella, commonly known as delicate bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the high country near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in south-eastern continental Australia. It is a small, prostrate, mat-forming shrub with elliptic to linear leaves and yellow to orange and red, pea-like flowers. Description
Pultenaea tenella is a trailing, prostrate, mat-forming shrub that typically grows to a height of  and has trailing branchlets up to  long that form adventitious roots at the nodes. The leaves are arranged in whorls of three, elliptic to linear, mostly  long and  wide with stipules  long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous but the lower surface is hairy. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a pedicel  long with linear bracteoles  long attached. The sepals are  long, the standard yellow to orange with a red base and  long, the wings yellow to orange and  long and the keel yellow and  long. Flowering occurs from December to January and the fruit is a flattened pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Pultenaea tenella was first formally described in 1864 by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by Ferdinand von Mueller at "an elevation of ". The specific epithet (tenella) means "delicate". Distribution and habitat
This pultenaea grows in swamps and moist herbfields in the ranges of north-eastern Victoria, and there is a single record from Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales. References

tenella
Flora of New South Wales
Plants described in 1864
Taxa named by George Bentham