Tufted Bush-pea is a small slender shrub to 20-50 cm high, with reddish ascending or prostrate branches, small leaves and red and yellow pea flowers.
Tufted Bush-pea |
Pultenaea trichophylla
Status: Endangered on the EPBC Act list
Government evidence of impact of climate change:
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Australian Government, Listing Advices, Pultenaea trichophylla
For example; a single fire has the potential to threaten all of the subpopulations of the Tufted Bush pea (SA DEH; 2008).
Given the small extent of the species occurrence; stochastic events such as a wildfire also pose a potential threat to its survival (SA DEH; 2008).