Hovea corrickiae

Shrub or slender tree to 5 m high; branchlets with dense, appressed to slightly spreading, ± straight or curled hairs. Leaves narrow-ovate or elliptic, mostly 3–11.4 cm long, 0.7–2 cm wide; apex obtuse or acute, with a short mucro; upper surface dark green, glossy, ± flat either side of depressed midrib; lower surface with dense coiled or curled hairs; stipules narrowly ovate, to 1.2 mm long. Inflorescences usually 2- or 3-flowered, or the axis extending into a many-flowered leafy shoot to 12 cm long; pedicels 5–9.5 mm long; bract inserted 4.5–8 mm below bracteoles; bracteoles inserted at or just below calyx; upper lobes of calyx 6–6.5 mm long (including tube); corolla pale to deep mauve or occasionally white; standard 9.5–10.5 mm long (including claw); stamen-filaments 4.5–5.5 mm long. Pod shortly stipitate but stipe not exceeding calyx; seeds dark brownish-black, often mottled yellow to reddish-brown. Flowers Sep.–Oct.