Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hovea asperifolia subsp. asperifolia
Common name
Mountain Hovea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, often on rocky sites. Kosciuszko National Park. ACT.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems with brown and partly white, grey, or black, hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1-10 cm long, 1.5-9 mm wide, flat to strongly arched on each side of a shallowly to deeply recessed midrib, margins curved down to strongly rolled down, tips squared off to somewhat pointed, mucro short, upper surface green, dull to somewhat glossy, mostly hairless; sometimes rough, lower surface almost hairless or slightly to moderately obscured by white, cream or golden coiled hairs. Standard petal 7-10 mm long, 7-12 mm wide. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, mauve, the standard with a yellow to pale spot. Flowers in 2-3 flowered clusters at the base of the upper leaves. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Regarded as indigenous/aturalised in the ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hovea~asperifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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