Glossy Hovea
Hovea corrickiae
Family Fabaceae
About
Hovea corrickiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub or slender tree with densely hairy branchlets, narrowly egg-shaped or elliptic, dark green leaves with stipules at the base, and mostly pale to deep mauve, pea-like flowers.
How to spot it
Hovea corrickiae is a slender shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 5 m (16 ft), its branchlets densely hairy. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, mostly 30–114 mm (1.2–4.5 in) long and 7–20 mm (0.28–0.79 in) wide with stipules up to 1.2 mm (0.047 in) long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is glossy dark green, the lower surface densely hairy. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs or threes, each flower on a pedicel 5.0–9.5 mm (0.20–0.37 in) long with
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Cathedral Range State Park — Melbourne, the Dandenongs & Central Victoria hikes