hovea

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hovea

any of various plants of the Australian genus Hovea, having clusters of small purple flowers

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macrophylla Ficus rubiginosa * * * * Gaultheria appressa * Grewia latifolia * Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia * Hovea longipes * * Leucopogon spp.

Dry rainforests: a productive habitat for Australian hunter-gatherers

In comparisons between congeneric pairs of species in the genera Dryandra, Banksia, Conospermum, Stirlingia, Bossiaea, Hovea, and Acacia, seedlings of the resprouters after 2-4 years had only about one-third the dry weight of comparably aged reseeders.

Ecological response syndromes in the Flora of Southwestern Western Australia: Fire resprouters versus reseeders

Only five (9%) of the 55 tail species were found to be abundant nowhere (Bossiaea ensata, Bossiaea scolopendria, Dampiera purpurea, Hovea linearis, Logania albiflora).