Hovea pedunculata

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]

Hovea pedunculata was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson and James Henderson Ross and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany.[3] The specific epithet (pedunculata) means "pedunculate".[4]

This hovea grows in dry forests or woodland usually on granite in the Gibraltar Range, near Wauchope and in Queensland.[2]