Hovea corrickiae

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids  >  Fabales > Fabaceae > Faboideae > Hovea  corrickiae

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Common name:         Glossy Purple-pea

Conservation status: Rare

• Listed as rare on schedules of the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act in 2004

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (corrickiae) honours the collector of the type specimens, Margaret Georgina Corrick 

Flowers

• Mostly pale to deep mauve, pea-like flowers

• These are usually arranged in pairs or threes

• Each flower is on a pedicel 5.0–9.5 mm long with bracteoles at the base of the sepals and bracts 1–2 mm long below

• The sepals are joined at the base, the two upper lobes 6.0–6.5 mm long, the three lower lobes 2.5–3.5 mm long

• The standard petal is white or pale to deep mauve and 9.5–10.5 mm long, 11–13 mm wide, the wings, 8.5–10 mm long and the keel 5.7–6.5 mm long

• Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is an oval or elliptic pod 10–20 mm long

Fruit:                            

Leaves:         

• The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic, mostly 30–114 mm long and 7–20 mm wide 

• With stipules up to 1.2 mm long at the base

•  The upper surface of the leaves is glossy dark green, the lower surface densely hairy

Stem & branches: 

• Its branchlets are densely hairy

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub or slender tree

• It typically grows to a height of up to 5 m

Habitat:   

• Open forest with a dense shrub layer and in scattered populations in high rainfall areas of Tasmania

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to south-eastern Australia

• North-eastern Tasmania and near the Grampians in Victoria

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy and naming

  • Hovea corrickiae, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae 

  • It was first formally described in 1990 by James Henderson Ross in the journal, Muelleria 

  • The specimens were collected in the Western Grampians by Margaret Georgina Corrick in 1983

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovea_corrickiae (2023)