Hovea acutifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don

Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall; indumentum brown to grey-brown, hairs curled to ± straight, appressed to somewhat spreading. Leaves: stipules 1.5–3 mm long; petiole 3–5 mm long; lamina very narrow-elliptic to narrow-elliptic, 3.5–8.5 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, margin recurved to slightly revolute, upper surface ± smooth, with fine reticulate venation, glabrous, lower surface with indumentum of orange-brown mostly spready hairs. Inflorescences mostly of 2 or 3 flowers, subsessile or peduncle to 2.5 mm long; pedicel 1.5–4 mm long, bract inserted 1–2.5 mm distal to base; bract and bracteoles oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 mm long. Calyx 4–5 mm long, tube 2–3 mm long, upper lip c. 3 mm wide. Standard 9–10 mm long, flare green-yellow; wing 3–3.5 mm wide. Pod sparsely hairy, glabrescent, sessile. Aril of seed 5–6 mm long, not expanded distally, hilum c. 4.5–5 mm long.

Grows in sandy soils in rainforest margins, open forest and heath.

Plants are grown from seeds.