Hovea rosmarinifolia

Shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets pubescent with curled to crumpled, somewhat appressed, brown or rusty hairs. Leaves linear to narrow-linear, 1–3(–4) cm long, 1.2–4 mm wide; apex truncate or rounded, mucronate; upper surface strongly arched up either side of depressed midrib, glabrous or with scattered hair, scabrid, venation strongly raised; lower surface with dense curled to crumpled, tan hairs that completely obscure the lamina; margins revolute, often completely concealing the lower surface; stipules narrow-ovate, 0.5–1.2 mm long, usually densely hairy. Inflorescence sessile, 1- or 2-flowered; pedicle 0.5–1.5(–2) mm long; bract inserted up to 1.5 mm below bracteoles, ovate to narrow-ovate, 0.8–1.5(–2) mm long; bracteoles narrow-ovate to lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm long; calyx 3–4 mm long; corolla mauve; standard 5–7 mm long (including claw), c. as wide as long; keels shorter than wings; stamen-filaments to c. 4 mm long. Pod sessile, with moderate to dense cover of rusty indumentum. Flowers Aug.–Sep.