| Hovea acutifolia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Genus: | Hovea |
| Species: | H. acutifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Hovea acutifolia | |
Hovea acutifolia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is an upright, small shrub with blue to purple pea flowers, dark green leaves and rusty coloured new growth. It grows in Queensland and New South Wales.
Hovea acutifolia is a bushy, slender shrub up to 4 m (13 ft) high, branches densely covered with a mixture of crinkled, wavy or straight grey to rusty hairs. The leaves are more or less narrow-elliptic, margins slightly turned under, 3–7 cm (1.2–2.8 in) long, 3–12 mm (0.12–0.47 in) wide, upper surface hairless with fine veins, lower surface brownish with soft hairs and tapering at the base and apex. The blue to purple pea inflorescence consists of 1-3 flowers borne in the leaf axils on a peduncle, single flowers on a pedicel 1.5–4 mm (0.059–0.157 in) long, calyx about 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long with loosely flattened hairs. The standard petal is 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in) long usually with yellow-greenish markings, the wings 7.5–9 mm (0.30–0.35 in) long and the keel 5–5.5 mm (0.20–0.22 in) long. Flowering occurs from late winter to early spring and the fruit is a pod about 15 mm (0.59 in) long, and sparsely covered with hairs. [2] [3] [4]
Hovea acutifolia was first formally described in 1832 by George Don and the description was published in A General History of Dichlamydeous. [5] [6] The specific epithet (acutifolia) means "acute-leaved". [7]
This species grows in damp, protected rainforest margins in New South Wales and Queensland. [2]
Hovea is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are sub-shrubs, shrubs or small trees with simple leaves and purple, blue or mauve flowers with a white centre. The fruit is a pod containing brown to blackish seeds. Species of Hovea occur in all Australian states, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
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