Hovea arnhemica
Hovea arnhemica, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory. It is a subshrub with light brown hairs, narrowly egg-shaped or elliptic leaves with stipules at the base, and mostly white, pea-like flowers. Description
Hovea arnhemica is a multi-stemmed subshrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its foliage densely covered with white to light brown hairs. The leaves are mostly narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic,  long,  wide on a petiole up to  long with tapering stipules up to  long at the base. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs or threes, each flower on a hairy pedicel up to  long with bracteoles  long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are joined at the base, the two upper lobes  long, the three lower lobes  long. The standard petal is white with a greenish-yellow centre and  long,  wide. The wings are  long and the keel  long. The fruit is a pod  long. Taxonomy and naming
Hovea arnhemica was first formally described in 1989 by James Henderson Ross in the journal, Muelleria from specimens collected in Arnhem Land by C.R. Dunlop in 1984. The species had been collected by Allan Cunningham on 21 April 1818 at Port Essington when he accompanied Lieutenant King on the Mermaid. Distribution and habitat
This species of pea grows in forest in Arnhem Land, north and north-west of Gunbalanya. References

arnhemica
Flora of the Northern Territory
Fabales of Australia
Plants described in 1989