Hovea cymbiformis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with foliage covered with brownish to grey hairs, narrowly elliptic leaves with stipules at the base, and mauve and yellowish-green, pea-like flowers.
Hovea cymbiformis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to, its foliage covered with brownish to grey, curled or coiled hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, long, wide on a petiole long with egg-shaped stipules long at the base. The flowers are usually arranged in pairs on short side-branches and are sessile with 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 mauve with a yellowish-green base and about long, wide and the wings are long. Flowering occurs from August to September and the fruit is a pod about long and wide.[1]
Hovea cymbiformis was first formally described in 2001 by Ian R. Thompson in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Attunga in 1997.[2] The specific epithet (cymbiformis) means "boat-shaped".[3]
This species of pea grows in woodland on soil derived from serpentinite, from near Barraba to near Chaffey Dam in north-eastern New South Wales.