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:
 Hovea asperifolia I.Thomps. subsp. asperifolia has leaves up to  wide and the standard petal has a yellow base;
 Hovea asperifolia subsp. spinosissima I.Thomps. has leaves up to  wide and the standard petal is entirely mauve. 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. References

asperifolia
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (state)
Fabales of Australia
Plants described in 2001