Hovea linearis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or trailing subshrub with mostly narrowly linear to linear leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve and yellowish-green, pea-like flowers.
Hovea linearis is an erect or trailing subshrub that sometimes grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Cvt, its branchlets covered with brown and silvery or grey hairs. The leaves are narrowly linear to linear, Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petioleШаблон:Cvt long with narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped stipules Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The leaves are more or less erect, the upper surface glabrous and the lower surface with soft hairs pressed against the surface. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs, each flower on a pedicelШаблон:Cvt long with bracts and bracteolesШаблон:Cvt long at the base. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long, the upper pair forming a "lip" Шаблон:Cvt wide. The standard petal is mauve with a yellowish-green base and Шаблон:Cvt long, the wingsШаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a glabrous podШаблон:Cvt long and wide.[1][2][3]
Hovea heterophylla is similar to H. linearis but has its leaves often spreading to pendent, usually wider leaves, up to four flowers per leaf axil, and sepals Шаблон:Cvt long.[4]
Hovea linearis grows in forest and woodland, mainly between Newcastle and Nowra in eastern New South Wales, but it is also known from the Blackdown Tableland in south-eastern Queensland.[2]
