Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
CHAROPHYTA
Class
EQUISETOPSIDA
Family
FABACEAE
Genus
Hovea
Species
acutifolia
Has fauna
False
Mapping

Common Name
Pointed-leaved Hovea
Alternate name
Purple Pea Bush
Is historical
False
QLD
NSW
EPBC
APC
ROTAP
Comment
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
False
Museum listing
False
Introduced
False
Qld Census
True
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Common
Historical abundance
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Local distribution
Widespread in moist open forest and protected gullies in open forest on sub-coastal metasediments and volcanics
Known location
Common over Scenic Rim, Subcoastal hills
Other locality
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
False
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
True
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Gully, drainage line, ravine, gorge, outwash, valley or valley floor: +/- intermittently wet.
Specific ecology
Habitat
Eucalypt Forest
Habitat comment
Threats
Management
Community type
Eucalyptus open forest, Eucalypt forest, Sclerophyll forest (wet or dry) or Stringybark
Migratory
False
Migration notes
Feeding status
Feeding strategy
Feeding substrate
Diet
Reproduction
Breeding season
Active period
Active season
Social group
Behaviour
Range
Biology
Growth form
Shrub
Description
Shrub/subShrub/undershrub
Taxonomy Comments
Species comments
Citations
Queensland Herbarium August 1999