Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hovea longifolia
Common name
Long-leaved hovea, Rusty pods
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, mainly on along streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall. Stems with dense brown to grey, sometimes partly black, hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-8.5 cm long, 2-9 mm wide, almost flat to moderately arched on each side of a shallowly recessed midrib, margins curved to rolled down, tips rounded to somewhat pointed, mucro short; upper surface green, glossy, hairless, smooth, venation indistinct; lower surface mostly to completely obscured by close, golden-brown curled hairs, midrib hairs dense, dark orange-brown. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, pink or blue to mauve. Standard petal with a yellow to cream spot. Flowers in 1-3 or more flowered clusters. Flowers Winter to Spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hovea~longifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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