Hovea pedunculata
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| Hovea pedunculata | |
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| In Willi Willi National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Hovea |
| Species: | H. pedunculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hovea pedunculata | |
Hovea pedunculata, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a small shrub with mauve flowers, dark green leaves and rusty coloured new growth. It grows in Queensland and New South Wales.
Hovea pedunculata is a shrub that grows up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) high with branchlets covered in brown-grey hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic or slightly oblong to lance-shaped, usually 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in) long, 6–12 mm (0.24–0.47 in) wide, flat, slightly curved either side of the midrib, margins usually curved under, upper surface smooth, distinctly veined. The lower surface thickly covered in curly to spreading hairs, stipules 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long, and the petiole 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long. The mauve-purple flowers are commonly borne in clusters of three, on a pedicel 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, peduncle 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long, sometimes more or less sessile and the calyx 6–7.5 mm (0.24–0.30 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod somewhat densely covered with hairs.[2]