NSW NSW DCCEEW has funded a staged project through Blue Mountains City Council to establish monitoring sites and to undertake additional fieldwork for the threatened plant species, Callistemon megalongensis, C. purpurascens (both new species found during our earlier vegetation mapping in this area), Persoonia acerosa and Pultenaea glabra. Searches for Persoonia acerosa relocated some known occurrences and recorded some new sitings. A long-standing mystery about the validity of records of Pultenaea glabra from Mounts Wilson and Irvine was resolved when I confirmed that those records were errors and relate to an undescribed species that is now common in those areas after the 2013 wildfire. I have named the new species Pultenaea ‘monticola’ (meaning, mountain dwelling). It is currently part of a wider genetic assessment by the NSW Herbarium, and will likely be formally described in the near future.
