Hovea graniticola

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Hovea graniticola
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Hovea
Species:
H. graniticola
Binomial name
Hovea graniticola

Hovea graniticola is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with its branchlets covered with curly brownish to grey hairs, narrowly oblong to almost linear leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve, pea-like flowers.

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Description

Hovea graniticola is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in), its branchlets covered with brownish to grey, curly and straight hairs up to 1 mm (0.039 in) long. The leaves are very narrowly oblong to linear, mostly 25–50 mm (0.98–1.97 in) long, 2.5–6 mm (0.098–0.236 in) wide on a petiole 2.0–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) long with stipules 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long at the base. The edges of the leaves are turned down or rolled under and arched on both sides of the midvein. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is densely covered with curly orangish hairs and longer spreading hairs. The flowers are usually arranged in leaf axils in pairs, each flower on a pedicel 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long, the sepals 4.5–6 mm (0.18–0.24 in) long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod about 10 mm (0.39 in) long and wide. [2]

Taxonomy and naming

Hovea graniticola was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by James Henderson Ross near Jollys Falls, west of The Summit in 1986. [3] The specific epithet (graniticola) means "granite-dwelling". [4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of pea grows in forest on soil derived from granite, from south-east Queensland to near Tamworth in New South Wales. [2]

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References

  1. "Hovea graniticola". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Hovea graniticola". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. "Hovea graniticola". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  4. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 210. ISBN   9780958034180.