Biology:Pullenia (plant)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Pullenia H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi |
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Pullenia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It only has one known, species Pullenia gunnii (Benth. ex Hook.f.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi[1]
It is native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria (Australia).[1][2]
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.[3]
The genus was circumscribed by Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi in J. Jap. Bot. vol.93 (Issue 5) on pages 299-301 in 2018.
Description
This plant is a sprawling to ascending perennial; with stems to 40 cm (16 in) 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 16 cm (6 in) 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.[4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Pullenia H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77194076-1.
- ↑ "Pullenia Parker & Jones 1862 - Encyclopedia of Life". https://eol.org/pages/62078.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022) (in German) (pdf). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ↑ "PlantNET - FloraOnline". https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pullenia~gunnii.
- ↑ "Pullenia | International Plant Names Index". https://www.ipni.org/n/77194076-1.
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