Almaleea cambagei commonly known as Torrington pea, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a small upright shrub with orange-yellow pea flowers and grows in New South Wales.
Description Almaleea cambagei is an upright, spindly shrub to high, stems sparsely to thickly covered in flattened, short soft hairs. Leaves are narrow-oblong to linear, long, wide, margins curved inward, lower surface usually warty. Yellow orange pea flowers about wide, borne at the end of stems, pedicels long, bracts long, hairy, calyx long, standard petal long. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a small pod long.
Taxonomy and naming This species was first described by Joseph Maiden and Daniel Ludwig Ernst Betche in 1908 who gave it the name Pultenaea cambagei. In 1991 Michael Crisp and Peter Henry Weston changed the name to Almaleea cambagei and the description was published in Telopea.
Distribution and habitat Torrington pea grows in swampy heath at altitudes above 1000 metres in Glencoe and Torrington areas of New South Wales.
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