Citation: Cunn. ex Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 1:93 (1856).

Synonymy: Hovea linearis

Common name: Common hovea.

Description:
Low plants with few stems from a woody rootstock, pubescent with simple straight hairs; leaves alternate, apiculate, upper surface reticulate-rugose (when dry), glabrous, lower surface with appressed hairs; lower leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse, 10-20 mm long; upper leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, to 6 (rarely to 8) cm long, acuminate, the margins often recurved, the midrib grooved above, conspicuously ridged below; stipules lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, acuminate, green-yellow to brown, pubescent.

Flowers: Aug.-Sept.

Pod oblique, 7-9 mm long, inflated, glabrescent or pubescent along the sutures.

	Hovea heterophylla twig and flower.
Image source: fig 374a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 369.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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