''Pullenia gunnii'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the legume family,

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

. It is the sole species in

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''Pullenia''. It is an annual, perennial, or subshrub native to

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

, New South Wales, Queensland,

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

and

Victoria (Australia) Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), ...

. The genus was

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by Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi in J. Jap. Bot. vol.93 (Issue 5) on pages 299-301 in 2018. The genus name of ''Pullenia'' is in honour of Royal 'Roy' Pullen (1925 - 2009), who was an Australian plant collector. Including between 1957-1972 collecting in Papua New Guinea.

Description

This plant is a sprawling to ascending

perennial In horticulture, the term perennial ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. It has thus been defined as a plant that lives more than 2 years. The term is also ...

; with stems to long, glabrous or with appressed hairs. It has 3-foliolate leaves; leaflets rhombic and truncate at apex, subglabrous, a few hairs on veins on lower surface, terminal leaflets 0.5–2 cm long, 7–11 mm wide, lateral leaflets smaller; petiole 10–30 mm long; stipules 2–4 mm long. Racemes to long, pedicels 1.5–7 mm long. The flowers are 1–1.2 mm long and in shades of pink or lavender. Pods are up to 30 mm long; with a dense indumentum of spreading hooked hairs and has up to 6 articles (a fruit with constrictions between the seeds) which are 4–5 mm long.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q95549411, from2=Q95988111 Monotypic Fabaceae genera Flora of New Caledonia Flora of New Guinea Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of Tasmania Plants described in 2018