Hovea pannosa

Shrub to 2.5 m high; branchlets villous with ± straight or crinkled, often rusty hairs overtopped by much longer spreading hairs. Leaves narrow linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, 2.5–5(–6) cm long, 4–7(–9) mm wide; apex shortly acute or obtuse with a short mucro; upper surface arched up either side of depressed midrib, glabrous, smooth or minutely scabrous; lower surface with dense, curled and long hairs; margins recurved to revolute; stipules subulate, 3–5 mm long, densely hairy. Inflorescence ± sessile, usually 2–3-flowered; pedicels 2–3 mm long, densely villous; bract inserted up to 1 mm below bracteoles, lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, somewhat obscured by dense hair; bracteoles lanceolate, 2–3.5(–4) mm long; calyx 5–6.5 mm long; corolla mauve; standard 8–10.5 mm long (including claw), wider than long; keels shorter than wings; stamen-filaments to 5.5 mm long. Pods sessile, with moderate cover of rusty indumentum. Flowers Aug.–Sep.