Fig. 24. Pultenaea aculeata (=P. sp. Olinda (R. Coveny 6166)) photos. (a) Shoot sector showing the pungent tipped leaves, and long filiform lobes on the stipules, also visible is the inrolled adaxial leaf surface, which is strongly glaucous. (b, c) Flowers from below showing the conspicuous red keel. (d) Flower buds at a shoot apex, showing the dense covering of short stiff hairs, and illustrating well the pungent tips of the calyx lobes. (e) Flower from the front showing the splayed wings and the conspicuous blood red nectar guides at the base of the standard. (f) Lateral view of calyx and flower bud, showing the blood red pigmentation on the abaxial surface of the standard, which persists through flower maturity, and the short stiff hairs on the calyx. All from plants growing in the vicinity of voucher NSW 1052810.

Published as part of Renner, Matthew A. M., Barrett, Russell L., Clarke, Steve, Clugston, James A. R. & Wilson, Peter H. Weston Trevor C., 2022, Morphological and molecular evidence refute a broad circumscription for Pultenaea glabra (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae), with implications for taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation, pp. 225-277 in Australian Systematic Botany 35 (3) on page 263, DOI: 10.1071/SB21030, http://zenodo.org/record/11048683