Hovea asperifolia
Hovea asperifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, narrowly oblong to narrowly linear leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve, pea-like flowers. Description. "Hovea asperifolia" is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to high, its branchlets densely covered with white to grey or black hairs. The leaves are narrowly oblong to narrowly linear, long, wide on a petiole long with densely hairy stipules long at the base. The leaves are usually more or  less glabrous, flat to arched either side of the mid-vein, and rough on the upper surface. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils, each flower on a hairy pedicel long with hairy bracts and bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long, the upper pair joined and wide, the three lower lobes long. The standard petal is pale to deep mauve, sometimes with a yellow centre, and long, wide. The wings are long and the keel long. Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a pod long. Taxonomy and naming. "Hovea asperifolia  was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson in Australian Systematic Botany" from specimens collected near Powelltown in 1983. "Hovea asperifolia" was previously included in "H. pannosa". In the same journal article, Thompson described two subspecies and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Distribution and habitat. This species of pea grows in forest in hilly to mountainous country in south-eastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and eastern Victoria. Subspecies "spinosissima" is restricted to the ranges near Daylesford and Euroa in central Victoria.