Hovea trisperma
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Hovea trisperma, commonly known as common hovea, it is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a small straggling shrub with purple-blue flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Description
Hovea trisperma is a perennial, short stemmed, sprawling, woody shrub to Template:Cvt high and multi-stemmed from the base. The branches thickly or sparsely coved with flattened hairs, often crinkled or twisted. The leaves are variable, they may be elliptic, lance-shaped, oval or linear-oblong and may vary on the one plant, upper leaves Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. The leaves rounded or pointed at the apex, margins may be slightly or distinctly curved under, upper surface smooth or with soft hairs and the petiole Template:Cvt long. The inflorescences are borne in leaf axils in a cluster of 1-6 purplish-blue flowers, either sessile or on a short peduncle. Each flower is on a pedicel Template:Cvt long that are densely covered with flattened, spreading hairs. The calyx thickly covered with flattened, erect to slightly spreading hairs.The standard petal is Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide with a white, centre flare. The wings are Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide, and the keel Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. Flowering occurs from May to November and the fruit is an oval-shaped pod.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
Hovea trisperma was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham and the description was published in Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel.[4] The specific epithet (trisperma) means "three seed" referring to the fruit.[5]
Distribution and habitat
Common hovea grows in sandy and clay soils in heath, woodlands and mallee from Perth, south to Busselton, and to the south-west near Albany, and Esperance.[1][3]
References
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External links
- [1] Template:Webarchive Pictures of Hovea trisperma